moravsviveWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#49,903
“mora” frequency rank
#37,878
“vive” frequency rank
87781
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mora vive
Definition 1. Person Singular Aorist Indikativ Nichtadmirativ Aktiv zur Verbform marr „nehmen“ Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs viver (unabhängig von Person und Numerus)

Letter map: mora vs vive

Shared letters muted; letters that set mora and vive apart highlighted. No shared letter run. mora and vive follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

4 ch
mora
4 ch
vive

Part-of-speech tell for mora / vive

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mora is anunknown and viveaverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 4 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 87781, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mora is recorded at frequency rank #49,903, classified as anunknown, pronounced […]. vive is at rank #37,878, 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 87781, this pair ranks #76,070 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of mora vs vive

Shared letters: none. Private to "mora": amor. Private to "vive": eiv.

"mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "vive" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • mora ← mmora · moar · morra · mroa · omra
  • vive ← ivve · viev · vivve · vvie · vvive

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "mora" for "vive" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mora" is an unknown and "vive" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "mora" or "vive"?
"vive" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #37,878 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

Pair "mora" vs "vive" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "mora" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "vive" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #76,070 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mora" and "vive" 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 #76,070 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