moravswonConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#49,903
“mora” frequency rank
#25,404
“won” frequency rank
75307
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mora won
Definition 1. Person Singular Aorist Indikativ Nichtadmirativ Aktiv zur Verbform marr „nehmen“ Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs win

Letter map: mora vs won

Shared letters muted; letters that set mora and won apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. mora runs 4 letters (CVCV) against won's 3 (CVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
mora
3 ch
won

Part-of-speech tell for mora / won

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mora is anunknown and wonaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 75307, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mora is recorded at frequency rank #49,903, classified as anunknown, pronounced […]. won is at rank #25,404, 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 75307, this pair ranks #311,250 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of mora vs won

Shared letters: o. Private to "mora": amr. Private to "won": nw.

"mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "won" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Known mistypes of this pair

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "mora" and "won" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mora" is an unknown and "won" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "mora" or "won" show up more?
"won" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #25,404 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

Pair "mora" vs "won" 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 "won" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #311,250 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mora" and "won" 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 #311,250 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