moravsscalaConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#49,903
“mora” frequency rank
#24,908
“scala” frequency rank
74811
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mora scala
Definition 1. Person Singular Aorist Indikativ Nichtadmirativ Aktiv zur Verbform marr „nehmen“ die Skala

Letter map: mora vs scala

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

4 ch
mora
5 ch
scala

Part-of-speech tell for mora / scala

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mora is anunknown and scalaanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 74811, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mora is recorded at frequency rank #49,903, classified as anunknown, pronounced […]. scala is at rank #24,908, 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 74811, this pair ranks #323,859 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of mora vs scala

Shared letters: a. Private to "mora": mor. Private to "scala": cls.

"mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "scala" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • morammora · moar · morra · mroa · omra
  • scalacsala · sacla · scaal · scalla · sccala · sclaa · sscala

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "mora" and "scala" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mora" is an unknown and "scala" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "mora" or "scala"?
"scala" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #24,908 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 "scala". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "mora" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "scala" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #323,859 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mora" and "scala" 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 #323,859 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