moravsnationWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#49,903
“mora” frequency rank
#3,758
“nation” frequency rank
53661
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

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

Letter map: mora vs nation

Shared letters muted; letters that set mora and nation apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

4 ch
mora
6 ch
nation

Role in the sentence - mora and nation

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mora is anunknown and nationanoun. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 53661, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mora is recorded at frequency rank #49,903, classified as anunknown, pronounced […]. nation is at rank #3,758, 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 53661, this pair ranks #1,049,323 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of mora vs nation

Shared letters: ao. Private to "mora": mr. Private to "nation": int.

"mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "nation" · 6 letters · shape CVCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • morammora · moar · morra · mroa · omra
  • nationantion · naiton · natino · nationn · natoin · nattion · nnation · ntaion

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "mora" for "nation" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mora" is an unknown and "nation" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "mora" or "nation"?
"nation" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,758 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

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "mora" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "nation" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,049,323 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mora" and "nation" 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 #1,049,323 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