moravsplayingWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#49,903
“mora” frequency rank
#34,851
“playing” frequency rank
84754
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mora playing
Definition 1. Person Singular Aorist Indikativ Nichtadmirativ Aktiv zur Verbform marr „nehmen“ Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs play

Letter map: mora vs playing

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

4 ch
mora
7 ch
playing

Part-of-speech tell for mora / playing

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mora is anunknown and playingaverb. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 84754, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mora is recorded at frequency rank #49,903, classified as anunknown, pronounced […]. playing is at rank #34,851, 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 84754, this pair ranks #118,783 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of mora vs playing

Shared letters: a. Private to "mora": mor. Private to "playing": gilnpy.

"mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "playing" · 7 letters · shape CCVVVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • morammora · moar · morra · mroa · omra
  • playinglpaying · palying · plaiyng · playign · playingg · playinng · playnig · playying

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "mora" for "playing" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mora" is an unknown and "playing" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "mora" or "playing"?
"playing" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #34,851 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.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "mora" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "playing" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #118,783 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mora" and "playing" 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 #118,783 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