moravsMoralWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: mora is a unknown, Moral is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#49,903
“mora” frequency rank
#5,203
“Moral” frequency rank
55106
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mora Moral
Definition 1. Person Singular Aorist Indikativ Nichtadmirativ Aktiv zur Verbform marr „nehmen“ die Wertvorstellungen und guten Sitten einer Gesellschaft oder einer Person

Letter map: mora vs Moral

Shared letters muted; letters that set mora and Moral apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

4 ch
mora
5 ch
Moral

Role in the sentence - mora and Moral

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mora is anunknown and Moralanoun. On the page they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “mora” sits inside “Moral”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 55106, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mora is recorded at frequency rank #49,903, classified as anunknown, pronounced […]. Moral is at rank #5,203, tagged as anoun, pronounced [moˈʁaːl].

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 55106, this pair ranks #992,510 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of mora vs Moral

Shared letters: amor. Private to "mora": -. Private to "Moral": l.

"mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "Moral" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • morammora · moar · morra · mroa · omra
  • Moralmmoral · moarl · morall · morla · morral · mroal · omral

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "mora" and "Moral" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mora" is an unknown and "Moral" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "mora" or "Moral" show up more?
"Moral" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,203 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

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "mora" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Moral" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #992,510 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mora" and "Moral" 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 #992,510 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