criticalvsmoraTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#26,813
“critical” frequency rank
#49,903
“mora” frequency rank
76716
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature critical mora
Definition sehr wichtig, essentiell, bedenklich, ausschlaggebend, erheblich 1. Person Singular Aorist Indikativ Nichtadmirativ Aktiv zur Verbform marr „nehmen“

Letter map: critical vs mora

Shared letters muted; letters that set critical and mora apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

8 ch
critical
4 ch
mora

Part-of-speech tell for critical / mora

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: critical is anadjective and moraanunknown. On the page they differ by 4 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 76716, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

critical is recorded at frequency rank #26,813, classified as anadj, 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 76716, this pair ranks #277,385 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of critical vs mora

Shared letters: ar. Private to "critical": cilt. Private to "mora": mo.

"critical" · 8 letters · shape CCVCVCVC  ·  "mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • criticalccritical · cirtical · criitcal · critcial · critiacl · criticall · criticcal · criticla
  • morammora · moar · morra · mroa · omra

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "critical" for "mora" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "critical" is an adjective and "mora" an unknown, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "critical" or "mora" show up more?
"critical" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #26,813 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

You've compared "critical" and "mora". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "critical" 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 #277,385 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "critical" 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 #277,385 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