KohvsmoraTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#39,477
“Koh” frequency rank
#49,903
“mora” frequency rank
89380
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Koh mora
Definition Buch Kohelet 1. Person Singular Aorist Indikativ Nichtadmirativ Aktiv zur Verbform marr „nehmen“

Letter map: Koh vs mora

Shared letters muted; letters that set Koh and mora apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. Koh runs 3 letters (CVC) against mora's 4 (CVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

3 ch
Koh
4 ch
mora

Grammar separator: Koh vs mora

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Koh is anabbrev and moraanunknown. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 89380, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Koh is recorded at frequency rank #39,477, 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 89380, this pair ranks #57,979 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of Koh vs mora

Shared letters: o. Private to "Koh": hk. Private to "mora": amr.

"Koh" · 3 letters · shape CVC  ·  "mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • mora ← mmora · moar · morra · mroa · omra

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Koh" and "mora" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Koh" is an abbrev and "mora" an unknown, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "Koh" or "mora" show up more?
"Koh" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #39,477 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.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "Koh" 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 #57,979 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Koh" 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 #57,979 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