moravsUkeTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#49,903
“mora” frequency rank
#44,987
“Uke” frequency rank
94890
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mora Uke
Definition 1. Person Singular Aorist Indikativ Nichtadmirativ Aktiv zur Verbform marr „nehmen“ im Judo die Person, die geworfen wird beziehungsweise an der die Technik ausgeführt wird

Letter map: mora vs Uke

Shared letters muted; letters that set mora and Uke apart highlighted. No shared letter run. mora runs 4 letters (CVCV) against Uke's 3 (VCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
mora
3 ch
Uke

Role in the sentence - mora and Uke

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mora is anunknown and Ukeanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 94890, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mora is recorded at frequency rank #49,903, classified as anunknown, pronounced […]. Uke is at rank #44,987, 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 94890, this pair ranks #14,319 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of mora vs Uke

Shared letters: none. Private to "mora": amor. Private to "Uke": eku.

"mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "Uke" · 3 letters · shape VCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • mora ← mmora · moar · morra · mroa · omra

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "mora" and "Uke" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mora" is an unknown and "Uke" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "mora" or "Uke" show up more?
"Uke" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #44,987 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

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "mora" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Uke" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #14,319 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mora" and "Uke" 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 #14,319 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