hanksvsmoraWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#36,977
“hanks” frequency rank
#49,903
“mora” frequency rank
86880
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

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

Letter map: hanks vs mora

Shared letters muted; letters that set hanks and mora apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. hanks runs 5 letters (CVCCC) against mora's 4 (CVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
hanks
4 ch
mora

Part-of-speech tell for hanks / mora

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: hanks is anoun and moraanunknown. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 86880, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

hanks is recorded at frequency rank #36,977, 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 86880, this pair ranks #87,723 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of hanks vs mora

Shared letters: a. Private to "hanks": hkns. Private to "mora": mor.

"hanks" · 5 letters · shape CVCCC  ·  "mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • hanks ← ahnks · hakns · hankks · hankss · hannks · hansk · hhanks · hnaks
  • mora ← mmora · moar · morra · mroa · omra

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "hanks" and "mora" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "hanks" is a noun and "mora" an unknown, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "hanks" vs "mora" - which ranks higher?
"hanks" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #36,977 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

Pair "hanks" vs "mora" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "hanks" 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 #87,723 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "hanks" 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 #87,723 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