etvsmoraTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#1,447
“et” frequency rank
#49,903
“mora” frequency rank
51350
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature et mora
Definition Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs eat 1. Person Singular Aorist Indikativ Nichtadmirativ Aktiv zur Verbform marr „nehmen“

Letter map: et vs mora

Shared letters muted; letters that set et and mora apart highlighted. No shared letter run.

2 ch
et
4 ch
mora

Part-of-speech tell for et / mora

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: et is averb and moraanunknown. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 51350, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

et is recorded at frequency rank #1,447, classified as averb, 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 51350, this pair ranks #1,138,863 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of et vs mora

Shared letters: none. Private to "et": et. Private to "mora": amor.

"et" · 2 letters · shape VC  ·  "mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • morammora · moar · morra · mroa · omra

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "et" for "mora" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "et" is a verb and "mora" an unknown, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "et" or "mora" show up more?
"et" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,447 in our German list, against #49,903 for "mora". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "et" 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 #1,138,863 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "et" 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 #1,138,863 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