moravswellsWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#49,903
“mora” frequency rank
#17,186
“wells” frequency rank
67089
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

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

Letter map: mora vs wells

Shared letters muted; letters that set mora and wells apart highlighted. No shared letter run. mora runs 4 letters (CVCV) against wells's 5 (CVCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
mora
5 ch
wells

Grammar separator: mora vs wells

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mora is anunknown and wellsaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 67089, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mora is recorded at frequency rank #49,903, classified as anunknown, pronounced […]. wells is at rank #17,186, 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 67089, this pair ranks #551,638 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of mora vs wells

Shared letters: none. Private to "mora": amor. Private to "wells": elsw.

"mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "wells" · 5 letters · shape CVCCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • mora ← mmora · moar · morra · mroa · omra
  • wells ← ewlls · wellss · welsl · wlels · wwells

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "mora" and "wells" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mora" is an unknown and "wells" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "mora" or "wells" show up more?
"wells" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #17,186 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 "wells". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "mora" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "wells" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #551,638 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mora" and "wells" 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 #551,638 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