harevsmoraWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#40,584
“hare” frequency rank
#49,903
“mora” frequency rank
90487
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature hare mora
Definition der Hase 1. Person Singular Aorist Indikativ Nichtadmirativ Aktiv zur Verbform marr „nehmen“

Letter map: hare vs mora

Shared letters muted; letters that set hare and mora apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. hare and mora follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

4 ch
hare
4 ch
mora

Part-of-speech tell for hare / mora

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: hare is anoun and moraanunknown. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 90487, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

hare is recorded at frequency rank #40,584, 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 90487, this pair ranks #46,547 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of hare vs mora

Shared letters: ar. Private to "hare": eh. Private to "mora": mo.

"hare" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • hare ← ahre · harre · hhare · hrae
  • mora ← mmora · moar · morra · mroa · omra

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "hare" and "mora" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "hare" is a noun and "mora" an unknown, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "hare" vs "mora" - which ranks higher?
"hare" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #40,584 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 "hare" and "mora". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "hare" 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 #46,547 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "hare" 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 #46,547 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