moravsmotoTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#49,903
“mora” frequency rank
#22,442
“moto” frequency rank
72345
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mora moto
Definition 1. Person Singular Aorist Indikativ Nichtadmirativ Aktiv zur Verbform marr „nehmen“ Motto, Wahl- oder Leitspruch

Letter map: mora vs moto

Shared letters muted; letters that set mora and moto apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. mora and moto follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

4 ch
mora
4 ch
moto

Role in the sentence - mora and moto

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mora is anunknown and motoanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 72345, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mora is recorded at frequency rank #49,903, classified as anunknown, pronounced […]. moto is at rank #22,442, tagged as anoun, 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 72345, this pair ranks #390,942 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of mora vs moto

Shared letters: mo. Private to "mora": ar. Private to "moto": t.

"mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "moto" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • mora ← mmora · moar · morra · mroa · omra
  • moto ← mmoto · moot · mtoo · omto

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "mora" for "moto" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mora" is an unknown and "moto" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "mora" or "moto"?
"moto" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #22,442 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

You've compared "mora" and "moto". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "mora" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "moto" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #390,942 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mora" and "moto" 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 #390,942 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