moravsrecentWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: mora is a unknown, recent is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#49,903
“mora” frequency rank
#48,411
“recent” frequency rank
98314
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mora recent
Definition 1. Person Singular Aorist Indikativ Nichtadmirativ Aktiv zur Verbform marr „nehmen“ kürzlich, jüngst

Letter map: mora vs recent

Shared letters muted; letters that set mora and recent apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. mora runs 4 letters (CVCV) against recent's 6 (CVCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
mora
6 ch
recent

Role in the sentence - mora and recent

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mora is anunknown and recentanadjective. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 98314, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mora is recorded at frequency rank #49,903, classified as anunknown, pronounced […]. recent is at rank #48,411, tagged as anadj, 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 98314, this pair ranks #1,656 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of mora vs recent

Shared letters: r. Private to "mora": amo. Private to "recent": cent.

"mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "recent" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • mora ← mmora · moar · morra · mroa · omra
  • recent ← ercent · rceent · reccent · recennt · recentt · recetn · recnet · reecnt

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "mora" for "recent" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mora" is an unknown and "recent" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "mora" or "recent" show up more?
"recent" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #48,411 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

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "mora" and "recent".

  • Full dictionary entry for "mora" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "recent" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,656 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mora" and "recent" 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 #1,656 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