moravsmountainsWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#49,903
“mora” frequency rank
#30,691
“mountains” frequency rank
80594
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mora mountains
Definition 1. Person Singular Aorist Indikativ Nichtadmirativ Aktiv zur Verbform marr „nehmen“ Plural des Substantivs mountain

Letter map: mora vs mountains

Shared letters muted; letters that set mora and mountains apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

4 ch
mora
9 ch
mountains

Role in the sentence - mora and mountains

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mora is anunknown and mountainsanoun. On the page they differ by 5 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 80594, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mora is recorded at frequency rank #49,903, classified as anunknown, pronounced […]. mountains is at rank #30,691, 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 80594, this pair ranks #192,492 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of mora vs mountains

Shared letters: amo. Private to "mora": r. Private to "mountains": instu.

"mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "mountains" · 9 letters · shape CVVCCVVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • morammora · moar · morra · mroa · omra
  • mountainsmmountains · monutains · mounatins · mounntains · mountainns · mountainss · mountaisn · mountanis

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "mora" for "mountains" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mora" is an unknown and "mountains" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "mora" or "mountains"?
"mountains" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #30,691 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.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "mora" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "mountains" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #192,492 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mora" and "mountains" 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 #192,492 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