moravsoffsWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#49,903
“mora” frequency rank
#24,856
“offs” frequency rank
74759
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mora offs
Definition 1. Person Singular Aorist Indikativ Nichtadmirativ Aktiv zur Verbform marr „nehmen“ 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs off

Letter map: mora vs offs

Shared letters muted; letters that set mora and offs apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. mora (CVCV) and offs (VCCC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

4 ch
mora
4 ch
offs

Part-of-speech tell for mora / offs

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mora is anunknown and offsaverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 4 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 74759, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mora is recorded at frequency rank #49,903, classified as anunknown, pronounced […]. offs is at rank #24,856, tagged as averb, 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 74759, this pair ranks #325,101 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of mora vs offs

Shared letters: o. Private to "mora": amr. Private to "offs": fs.

"mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "offs" · 4 letters · shape VCCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • mora ← mmora · moar · morra · mroa · omra
  • offs ← fofs · offss · ofs · ofsf

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "mora" and "offs" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mora" is an unknown and "offs" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "mora" vs "offs" - which ranks higher?
"offs" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #24,856 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

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "mora" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "offs" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #325,101 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mora" and "offs" 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 #325,101 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