moravssportingWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#49,903
“mora” frequency rank
#47,016
“sporting” frequency rank
96919
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

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

Letter map: mora vs sporting

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

4 ch
mora
8 ch
sporting

Role in the sentence - mora and sporting

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mora is anunknown and sportingaverb. On the page they differ by 4 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 96919, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mora is recorded at frequency rank #49,903, classified as anunknown, pronounced […]. sporting is at rank #47,016, 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 96919, this pair ranks #5,460 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of mora vs sporting

Shared letters: or. Private to "mora": am. Private to "sporting": ginpst.

"mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "sporting" · 8 letters · shape CCVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • morammora · moar · morra · mroa · omra
  • sportingpsorting · soprting · sporitng · sporrting · sportign · sportingg · sportinng · sportnig

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "mora" and "sporting" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mora" is an unknown and "sporting" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "mora" or "sporting"?
"sporting" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #47,016 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.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "mora" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "sporting" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #5,460 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mora" and "sporting" 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 #5,460 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