moravsscreeningWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#49,903
“mora” frequency rank
#30,760
“screening” frequency rank
80663
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

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

Letter map: mora vs screening

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

4 ch
mora
9 ch
screening

Part-of-speech tell for mora / screening

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mora is anunknown and screeningaverb. On the page they differ by 5 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 80663, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mora is recorded at frequency rank #49,903, classified as anunknown, pronounced […]. screening is at rank #30,760, 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 80663, this pair ranks #191,105 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of mora vs screening

Shared letters: r. Private to "mora": amo. Private to "screening": cegins.

"mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "screening" · 9 letters · shape CCCVVCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • morammora · moar · morra · mroa · omra
  • screeningcsreening · sccreening · scerening · screeinng · screenign · screeningg · screeninng · screennig

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "mora" for "screening" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mora" is an unknown and "screening" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "mora" or "screening" show up more?
"screening" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #30,760 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 "screening". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "mora" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "screening" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #191,105 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mora" and "screening" 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 #191,105 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