habsvsmoraWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#4,992
“habs” frequency rank
#49,903
“mora” frequency rank
54895
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature habs mora
Definition habe es 1. Person Singular Aorist Indikativ Nichtadmirativ Aktiv zur Verbform marr „nehmen“

Letter map: habs vs mora

Shared letters muted; letters that set habs and mora apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

4 ch
habs
4 ch
mora

Role in the sentence - habs and mora

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: habs is anabbrev and moraanunknown. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 4 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54895, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

habs is recorded at frequency rank #4,992, classified as anabbrev, 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 54895, this pair ranks #1,000,787 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of habs vs mora

Shared letters: a. Private to "habs": bhs. Private to "mora": mor.

"habs" · 4 letters · shape CVCC  ·  "mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • habsahbs · habbs · habss · hasb · hbas · hhabs
  • morammora · moar · morra · mroa · omra

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "habs" for "mora" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "habs" is an abbrev and "mora" an unknown, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "habs" vs "mora" - which ranks higher?
"habs" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,992 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 "habs" and "mora". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "habs" 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 #1,000,787 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "habs" 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 #1,000,787 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