moravssharpConfusable pair

Quick tell: mora is a unknown, sharp is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#49,903
“mora” frequency rank
#29,787
“sharp” frequency rank
79690
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mora sharp
Definition 1. Person Singular Aorist Indikativ Nichtadmirativ Aktiv zur Verbform marr „nehmen“ so, dass es gut schneidet (zum Beispiel ein Messer oder eine Axt)

Letter map: mora vs sharp

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

4 ch
mora
5 ch
sharp

Role in the sentence - mora and sharp

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mora is anunknown and sharpanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 79690, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mora is recorded at frequency rank #49,903, classified as anunknown, pronounced […]. sharp is at rank #29,787, tagged as anadj, 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 79690, this pair ranks #211,149 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of mora vs sharp

Shared letters: ar. Private to "mora": mo. Private to "sharp": hps.

"mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "sharp" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • morammora · moar · morra · mroa · omra
  • sharphsarp · sahrp · shapr · sharpp · sharrp · shharp · shrap · ssharp

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "mora" and "sharp" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mora" is an unknown and "sharp" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "mora" or "sharp" show up more?
"sharp" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #29,787 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

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "mora" and "sharp".

  • Full dictionary entry for "mora" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "sharp" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #211,149 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mora" and "sharp" 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 #211,149 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