moravssuspensionWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#49,903
“mora” frequency rank
#47,038
“suspension” frequency rank
96941
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mora suspension
Definition 1. Person Singular Aorist Indikativ Nichtadmirativ Aktiv zur Verbform marr „nehmen“ Federung (Auto), Radaufhängung

Letter map: mora vs suspension

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

4 ch
mora
10 ch
suspension

Role in the sentence - mora and suspension

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mora is anunknown and suspensionanoun. On the page they differ by 6 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 96941, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mora is recorded at frequency rank #49,903, classified as anunknown, pronounced […]. suspension is at rank #47,038, tagged as anoun, 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 96941, this pair ranks #5,385 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of mora vs suspension

Shared letters: o. Private to "mora": amr. Private to "suspension": einpsu.

"mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "suspension" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • morammora · moar · morra · mroa · omra
  • suspensionssupension · ssuspension · supsension · susepnsion · suspenison · suspennsion · suspensino · suspensionn

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "mora" and "suspension" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mora" is an unknown and "suspension" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "mora" or "suspension" show up more?
"suspension" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #47,038 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

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "mora" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "suspension" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #5,385 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mora" and "suspension" 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 #5,385 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