fingersvsmoraConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#35,771
“fingers” frequency rank
#49,903
“mora” frequency rank
85674
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature fingers mora
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs finger 1. Person Singular Aorist Indikativ Nichtadmirativ Aktiv zur Verbform marr „nehmen“

Letter map: fingers vs mora

Shared letters muted; letters that set fingers and mora apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. fingers runs 7 letters (CVCCVCC) against mora's 4 (CVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
fingers
4 ch
mora

Grammar separator: fingers vs mora

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: fingers is averb and moraanunknown. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 85674, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

fingers is recorded at frequency rank #35,771, 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 85674, this pair ranks #104,757 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of fingers vs mora

Shared letters: r. Private to "fingers": efgins. Private to "mora": amo.

"fingers" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC  ·  "mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • fingers ← ffingers · figners · finegrs · fingerrs · fingerss · fingesr · finggers · fingres
  • mora ← mmora · moar · morra · mroa · omra

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "fingers" for "mora" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "fingers" is a verb and "mora" an unknown, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "fingers" or "mora"?
"fingers" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #35,771 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.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "fingers" 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 #104,757 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "fingers" 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 #104,757 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