moravsnosConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#49,903
“mora” frequency rank
#27,872
“nos” frequency rank
77775
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mora nos
Definition 1. Person Singular Aorist Indikativ Nichtadmirativ Aktiv zur Verbform marr „nehmen“ für die 1. Person, Plural, Nominativ (Subjektfall); wir

Letter map: mora vs nos

Shared letters muted; letters that set mora and nos apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. mora runs 4 letters (CVCV) against nos's 3 (CVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
mora
3 ch
nos

Role in the sentence - mora and nos

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mora is anunknown and nosapronoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 77775, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mora is recorded at frequency rank #49,903, classified as anunknown, pronounced […]. nos is at rank #27,872, tagged as apron, 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 77775, this pair ranks #253,206 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of mora vs nos

Shared letters: o. Private to "mora": amr. Private to "nos": ns.

"mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "nos" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • mora ← mmora · moar · morra · mroa · omra

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "mora" and "nos" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mora" is an unknown and "nos" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "mora" or "nos" show up more?
"nos" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #27,872 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.

What to do next

Pair "mora" vs "nos" 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 "nos" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #253,206 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mora" and "nos" 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 #253,206 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