Mode vs mora, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#3,331
“Mode” frequency rank: #49,903
“mora” frequency rank: 53234
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	Mode	mora
Definition	Brauch, Gewohnheit, Sitte	1. Person Singular Aorist Indikativ Nichtadmirativ Aktiv zur Verbform marr „nehmen“

Letter map: Mode vs mora

Shared letters muted; letters that set Mode and mora apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch

Mode

4 ch

mora

Role in the sentence - Mode and mora

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Mode is anoun and moraanunknown. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 53234, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Mode is recorded at frequency rank #3,331, classified as anoun, pronounced [ˈmoːdə]. 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 53234, this pair ranks #1,065,940 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Mode vs mora

Shared letters: mo. Private to "Mode": de. Private to "mora": ar.

"Mode" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

Mode ← mdoe · mmode · modde · moed · omde
mora ← mmora · moar · morra · mroa · omra

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Mode" and "mora" mean the same thing in a sentence?

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

Frequency check: "Mode" vs "mora" - which ranks higher?

"Mode" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,331 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

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

Full dictionary entry for "Mode" 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 #1,065,940 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"Mode" 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 #1,065,940 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.