moravswaggonsConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#49,903
“mora” frequency rank
#27,564
“waggons” frequency rank
77467
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mora waggons
Definition 1. Person Singular Aorist Indikativ Nichtadmirativ Aktiv zur Verbform marr „nehmen“ 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs waggon

Letter map: mora vs waggons

Shared letters muted; letters that set mora and waggons apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. mora runs 4 letters (CVCV) against waggons's 7 (CVCCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
mora
7 ch
waggons

Role in the sentence - mora and waggons

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mora is anunknown and waggonsaverb. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 77467, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mora is recorded at frequency rank #49,903, classified as anunknown, pronounced […]. waggons is at rank #27,564, 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 77467, this pair ranks #260,019 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of mora vs waggons

Shared letters: ao. Private to "mora": mr. Private to "waggons": gnsw.

"mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "waggons" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • mora ← mmora · moar · morra · mroa · omra
  • waggons ← awggons · waggnos · waggonns · waggonss · waggosn · wagogns · wagons · wgagons

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "mora" and "waggons" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mora" is an unknown and "waggons" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "mora" or "waggons" show up more?
"waggons" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #27,564 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

Pair "mora" vs "waggons" 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 "waggons" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #260,019 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mora" and "waggons" 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 #260,019 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