moravsrecordingConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#49,903
“mora” frequency rank
#44,871
“recording” frequency rank
94774
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

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

Letter map: mora vs recording

Shared letters muted; letters that set mora and recording apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
mora
9 ch
recording

Role in the sentence - mora and recording

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mora is anunknown and recordingaverb. On the page they differ by 5 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 94774, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mora is recorded at frequency rank #49,903, classified as anunknown, pronounced […]. recording is at rank #44,871, 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 94774, this pair ranks #14,935 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of mora vs recording

Shared letters: or. Private to "mora": am. Private to "recording": cdegin.

"mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "recording" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • morammora · moar · morra · mroa · omra
  • recordingercording · rceording · reccording · recodring · recordding · recordign · recordingg · recordinng

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "mora" and "recording" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mora" is an unknown and "recording" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "mora" or "recording" show up more?
"recording" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #44,871 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 "recording". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "mora" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "recording" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #14,935 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mora" and "recording" 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 #14,935 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