directorvsmoraWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#11,629
“director” frequency rank
#49,903
“mora” frequency rank
61532
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature director mora
Definition Person, die etwas leitet; Direktor, Leiter 1. Person Singular Aorist Indikativ Nichtadmirativ Aktiv zur Verbform marr „nehmen“

Letter map: director vs mora

Shared letters muted; letters that set director and mora apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. director runs 8 letters (CVCVCCVC) against mora's 4 (CVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
director
4 ch
mora

Role in the sentence - director and mora

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: director is anoun and moraanunknown. On the page they differ by 4 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 61532, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

director is recorded at frequency rank #11,629, 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 61532, this pair ranks #746,225 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of director vs mora

Shared letters: or. Private to "director": cdeit. Private to "mora": am.

"director" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVC  ·  "mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • director ← ddirector · dierctor · dircetor · direcctor · direcotr · directorr · directro · directtor
  • mora ← mmora · moar · morra · mroa · omra

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "director" for "mora" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "director" is a noun and "mora" an unknown, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "director" vs "mora" - which ranks higher?
"director" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #11,629 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 "director" and "mora". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "director" 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 #746,225 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "director" 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 #746,225 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