maggiorevsmoraConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#44,783
“maggiore” frequency rank
#49,903
“mora” frequency rank
94686
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature maggiore mora
Definition größer 1. Person Singular Aorist Indikativ Nichtadmirativ Aktiv zur Verbform marr „nehmen“

Letter map: maggiore vs mora

Shared letters muted; letters that set maggiore and mora apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. maggiore runs 8 letters (CVCCVVCV) against mora's 4 (CVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
maggiore
4 ch
mora

Grammar separator: maggiore vs mora

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: maggiore is anadjective and moraanunknown. On the page they differ by 4 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 94686, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

maggiore is recorded at frequency rank #44,783, classified as anadj, 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 94686, this pair ranks #15,466 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of maggiore vs mora

Shared letters: amor. Private to "maggiore": egi. Private to "mora": -.

"maggiore" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVVCV  ·  "mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • maggioreamggiore · maggioer · maggiorre · maggiroe · maggoire · magigore · magiore · mgagiore
  • morammora · moar · morra · mroa · omra

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "maggiore" and "mora" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "maggiore" is an adjective and "mora" an unknown, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "maggiore" or "mora" show up more?
"maggiore" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #44,783 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

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "maggiore" 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 #15,466 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "maggiore" 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 #15,466 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