moravssummaWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#49,903
“mora” frequency rank
#29,355
“summa” frequency rank
79258
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mora summa
Definition 1. Person Singular Aorist Indikativ Nichtadmirativ Aktiv zur Verbform marr „nehmen“ Nominativ Singular Femininum des Adjektivs summus

Letter map: mora vs summa

Shared letters muted; letters that set mora and summa apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. mora runs 4 letters (CVCV) against summa's 5 (CVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
mora
5 ch
summa

Part-of-speech tell for mora / summa

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mora is anunknown and summaanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 79258, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mora is recorded at frequency rank #49,903, classified as anunknown, pronounced […]. summa is at rank #29,355, 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 79258, this pair ranks #220,328 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of mora vs summa

Shared letters: am. Private to "mora": or. Private to "summa": su.

"mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "summa" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • mora ← mmora · moar · morra · mroa · omra
  • summa ← smuma · ssumma · suma · sumam · usmma

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "mora" for "summa" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mora" is an unknown and "summa" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "mora" vs "summa" - which ranks higher?
"summa" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #29,355 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 "summa". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "mora" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "summa" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #220,328 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mora" and "summa" 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 #220,328 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