moravsscratchWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#49,903
“mora” frequency rank
#43,485
“scratch” frequency rank
93388
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

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

Letter map: mora vs scratch

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

4 ch
mora
7 ch
scratch

Part-of-speech tell for mora / scratch

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mora is anunknown and scratchaverb. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 93388, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mora is recorded at frequency rank #49,903, classified as anunknown, pronounced […]. scratch is at rank #43,485, 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 93388, this pair ranks #23,152 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of mora vs scratch

Shared letters: ar. Private to "mora": mo. Private to "scratch": chst.

"mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "scratch" · 7 letters · shape CCCVCCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • morammora · moar · morra · mroa · omra
  • scratchcsratch · scartch · sccratch · scracth · scratcch · scratchh · scrathc · scrattch

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "mora" for "scratch" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mora" is an unknown and "scratch" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "mora" or "scratch"?
"scratch" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #43,485 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

Pair "mora" vs "scratch" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "mora" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "scratch" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #23,152 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mora" and "scratch" 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 #23,152 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