moravsriceWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#49,903
“mora” frequency rank
#23,680
“rice” frequency rank
73583
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

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

Letter map: mora vs rice

Shared letters muted; letters that set mora and rice apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. mora and rice follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

4 ch
mora
4 ch
rice

Grammar separator: mora vs rice

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mora is anunknown and riceanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 4 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 73583, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mora is recorded at frequency rank #49,903, classified as anunknown, pronounced […]. rice is at rank #23,680, 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 73583, this pair ranks #356,418 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of mora vs rice

Shared letters: r. Private to "mora": amo. Private to "rice": cei.

"mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "rice" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • mora ← mmora · moar · morra · mroa · omra
  • rice ← irce · rcie · ricce · riec · rrice

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "mora" for "rice" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mora" is an unknown and "rice" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "mora" or "rice"?
"rice" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #23,680 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 "rice". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "mora" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "rice" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #356,418 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mora" and "rice" 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 #356,418 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