guidesvsmoraWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#39,409
“guides” frequency rank
#49,903
“mora” frequency rank
89312
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature guides mora
Definition Plural des Substantivs guide 1. Person Singular Aorist Indikativ Nichtadmirativ Aktiv zur Verbform marr „nehmen“

Letter map: guides vs mora

Shared letters muted; letters that set guides and mora apart highlighted. No shared letter run. guides runs 6 letters (CVVCVC) against mora's 4 (CVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
guides
4 ch
mora

Part-of-speech tell for guides / mora

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: guides is anoun and moraanunknown. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 89312, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

guides is recorded at frequency rank #39,409, 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 89312, this pair ranks #58,695 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of guides vs mora

Shared letters: none. Private to "guides": degisu. Private to "mora": amor.

"guides" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC  ·  "mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • guides ← gguides · giudes · gudies · guiddes · guidess · guidse · guieds · ugides
  • mora ← mmora · moar · morra · mroa · omra

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "guides" and "mora" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "guides" is a noun and "mora" an unknown, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "guides" or "mora"?
"guides" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #39,409 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

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "guides" 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 #58,695 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "guides" 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 #58,695 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