crowvsmoraTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#36,863
“crow” frequency rank
#49,903
“mora” frequency rank
86766
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature crow mora
Definition Vogel; Krähe 1. Person Singular Aorist Indikativ Nichtadmirativ Aktiv zur Verbform marr „nehmen“

Letter map: crow vs mora

Shared letters muted; letters that set crow and mora apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. crow (CCVC) and mora (CVCV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

4 ch
crow
4 ch
mora

Grammar separator: crow vs mora

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: crow is anoun and moraanunknown. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 4 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 86766, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

crow is recorded at frequency rank #36,863, 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 86766, this pair ranks #89,286 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of crow vs mora

Shared letters: or. Private to "crow": cw. Private to "mora": am.

"crow" · 4 letters · shape CCVC  ·  "mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • crow ← ccrow · corw · croww · crrow · crwo · rcow
  • mora ← mmora · moar · morra · mroa · omra

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "crow" and "mora" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "crow" is a noun and "mora" an unknown, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "crow" or "mora" show up more?
"crow" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #36,863 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.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "crow" 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 #89,286 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "crow" 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 #89,286 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