min vs mora, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#1,562
“min” frequency rank: #49,903
“mora” frequency rank: 51465
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

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

Letter map: min vs mora

Shared letters muted; letters that set min and mora apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

3 ch

min

4 ch

mora

Part-of-speech tell for min / mora

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: min is anabbrev and moraanunknown. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 51465, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

min is recorded at frequency rank #1,562, 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 51465, this pair ranks #1,134,521 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of min vs mora

Shared letters: m. Private to "min": in. Private to "mora": aor.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

mora ← mmora · moar · morra · mroa · omra

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "min" for "mora" ever safe?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "min" is an abbrev and "mora" an unknown, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Which is more common, "min" or "mora"?

"min" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,562 in our German list, against #49,903 for "mora". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

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

Full dictionary entry for "min" 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 #1,134,521 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"min" 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 #1,134,521 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.