Which to use
“famous” is an adjective and “mora” is an unknown - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #41,158
- “famous” frequency rank
- #49,903
- “mora” frequency rank
- 91061
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | famous | mora |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | bekannt, berühmt | 1. Person Singular Aorist Indikativ Nichtadmirativ Aktiv zur Verbform marr „nehmen“ |
Letter map: famous vs mora
Shared letters muted; letters that set famous and mora apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.
Part-of-speech tell for famous / mora
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: famous is anadjective and moraanunknown. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 91061, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
famous is recorded at frequency rank #41,158, 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 91061, this pair ranks #41,194 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of famous vs mora
Shared letters: amo. Private to "famous": fsu. Private to "mora": r.
"famous" · 6 letters · shape CVCVVC · "mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
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After this comparison
You've compared "famous" and "mora". Here's where to go from here.
- Full dictionary entry for "famous" 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 #41,194 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "famous" 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 #41,194 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.