moravsnouvelleWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#49,903
“mora” frequency rank
#38,926
“nouvelle” frequency rank
88829
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

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

Letter map: mora vs nouvelle

Shared letters muted; letters that set mora and nouvelle apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. mora runs 4 letters (CVCV) against nouvelle's 8 (CVVCVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
mora
8 ch
nouvelle

Role in the sentence - mora and nouvelle

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mora is anunknown and nouvelleanoun. On the page they differ by 4 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 88829, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mora is recorded at frequency rank #49,903, classified as anunknown, pronounced […]. nouvelle is at rank #38,926, 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 88829, this pair ranks #64,008 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of mora vs nouvelle

Shared letters: o. Private to "mora": amr. Private to "nouvelle": elnuv.

"mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "nouvelle" · 8 letters · shape CVVCVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • morammora · moar · morra · mroa · omra
  • nouvellennouvelle · nouevlle · nouvele · nouvelel · nouvlele · nouvvelle · novuelle · nuovelle

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "mora" for "nouvelle" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mora" is an unknown and "nouvelle" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "mora" or "nouvelle" show up more?
"nouvelle" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #38,926 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 "nouvelle". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "mora" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "nouvelle" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #64,008 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mora" and "nouvelle" 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 #64,008 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