moravsmusicWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#49,903
“mora” frequency rank
#4,816
“music” frequency rank
54719
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

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

Letter map: mora vs music

Shared letters muted; letters that set mora and music apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. mora runs 4 letters (CVCV) against music's 5 (CVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
mora
5 ch
music

Role in the sentence - mora and music

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mora is anunknown and musicanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54719, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mora is recorded at frequency rank #49,903, classified as anunknown, pronounced […]. music is at rank #4,816, 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 54719, this pair ranks #1,007,810 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of mora vs music

Shared letters: m. Private to "mora": aor. Private to "music": cisu.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

  • mora ← mmora · moar · morra · mroa · omra
  • music ← mmusic · msuic · muisc · musci · musicc · mussic · umsic

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "mora" for "music" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mora" is an unknown and "music" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "mora" or "music"?
"music" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,816 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.

After this comparison

Pair "mora" vs "music" 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 "music" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,007,810 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mora" and "music" 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 #1,007,810 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