heartsvsmoraTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#27,341
“hearts” frequency rank
#49,903
“mora” frequency rank
77244
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

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

Letter map: hearts vs mora

Shared letters muted; letters that set hearts and mora apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. hearts runs 6 letters (CVVCCC) against mora's 4 (CVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
hearts
4 ch
mora

Role in the sentence - hearts and mora

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: hearts is averb and moraanunknown. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 77244, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

hearts is recorded at frequency rank #27,341, 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 77244, this pair ranks #265,197 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of hearts vs mora

Shared letters: ar. Private to "hearts": ehst. Private to "mora": mo.

"hearts" · 6 letters · shape CVVCCC  ·  "mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • hearts ← eharts · haerts · hearrts · hearst · heartss · heartts · heatrs · herats
  • mora ← mmora · moar · morra · mroa · omra

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "hearts" for "mora" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "hearts" is a verb and "mora" an unknown, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "hearts" or "mora"?
"hearts" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #27,341 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

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "hearts" 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 #265,197 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "hearts" 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 #265,197 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