moravssettingWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#49,903
“mora” frequency rank
#22,890
“setting” frequency rank
72793
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

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

Letter map: mora vs setting

Shared letters muted; letters that set mora and setting apart highlighted. No shared letter run.

4 ch
mora
7 ch
setting

Part-of-speech tell for mora / setting

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mora is anunknown and settingaverb. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 72793, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mora is recorded at frequency rank #49,903, classified as anunknown, pronounced […]. setting is at rank #22,890, 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 72793, this pair ranks #378,398 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of mora vs setting

Shared letters: none. Private to "mora": amor. Private to "setting": eginst.

"mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "setting" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • morammora · moar · morra · mroa · omra
  • settingestting · seting · setitng · settign · settingg · settinng · settnig · ssetting

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "mora" and "setting" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mora" is an unknown and "setting" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "mora" vs "setting" - which ranks higher?
"setting" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #22,890 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.

What to do next

You've compared "mora" and "setting". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "mora" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "setting" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #378,398 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mora" and "setting" 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 #378,398 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