crewsvsmoraWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: crews is a noun, mora is an unknown, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“crews” is a noun and “mora” is an unknown - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#40,466
“crews” frequency rank
#49,903
“mora” frequency rank
90369
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature crews mora
Definition Plural des Substantivs crew 1. Person Singular Aorist Indikativ Nichtadmirativ Aktiv zur Verbform marr „nehmen“

Letter map: crews vs mora

Shared letters muted; letters that set crews and mora apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. crews runs 5 letters (CCVCC) against mora's 4 (CVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
crews
4 ch
mora

Part-of-speech tell for crews / mora

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: crews is anoun and moraanunknown. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 90369, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

crews is recorded at frequency rank #40,466, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. mora is at rank #49,903, tagged as anunknown, pronounced […].

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 90369, this pair ranks #47,705 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of crews vs mora

Shared letters: r. Private to "crews": cesw. Private to "mora": amo.

"crews" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC  ·  "mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • crews ← ccrews · cerws · cresw · crewss · crewws · crrews · crwes · rcews
  • mora ← mmora · moar · morra · mroa · omra

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "crews" and "mora" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "crews" is a noun and "mora" an unknown, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "crews" or "mora" show up more?
"crews" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #40,466 in our German list, against #49,903 for "mora". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "crews" and "mora".

  • Full dictionary entry for "crews" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "mora" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #47,705 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "crews" and "mora" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mora vs puzzles". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #47,705 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list