feyvsmoraWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#43,868
“fey” frequency rank
#49,903
“mora” frequency rank
93771
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature fey mora
Definition (aus dem schottischen) todgeweiht 1. Person Singular Aorist Indikativ Nichtadmirativ Aktiv zur Verbform marr „nehmen“

Letter map: fey vs mora

Shared letters muted; letters that set fey and mora apart highlighted. No shared letter run. fey runs 3 letters (CVV) against mora's 4 (CVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

3 ch
fey
4 ch
mora

Grammar separator: fey vs mora

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: fey is anadjective and moraanunknown. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 93771, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

fey is recorded at frequency rank #43,868, 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 93771, this pair ranks #20,649 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of fey vs mora

Shared letters: none. Private to "fey": efy. Private to "mora": amor.

"fey" · 3 letters · shape CVV  ·  "mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • mora ← mmora · moar · morra · mroa · omra

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "fey" for "mora" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "fey" is an adjective and "mora" an unknown, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "fey" or "mora" show up more?
"fey" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #43,868 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.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "fey" 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 #20,649 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "fey" 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 #20,649 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