moravsyou'reWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: mora is a unknown, you're is an abbrev, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“mora” is an unknown and “you're” is an abbrev - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#49,903
“mora” frequency rank
#15,006
“you're” frequency rank
64909
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mora you're
Definition 1. Person Singular Aorist Indikativ Nichtadmirativ Aktiv zur Verbform marr „nehmen“ „you are, 2. Person Singular:“ du bist

Letter map: mora vs you're

Shared letters muted; letters that set mora and you're apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. mora runs 4 letters (CVCV) against you're's 5 (VVVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
mora
6 ch
you're

Part-of-speech tell for mora / you're

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mora is anunknown and you'reanabbrev. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 64909, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mora is recorded at frequency rank #49,903, classified as anunknown, pronounced […]. you're is at rank #15,006, tagged as anabbrev, 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 64909, this pair ranks #625,102 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of mora vs you're

Shared letters: or. Private to "mora": am. Private to "you're": euy.

"mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "you're" · 5 letters · shape VVVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "mora" for "you're" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mora" is an unknown and "you're" an abbrev, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "mora" or "you're"?
"you're" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #15,006 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 "you're" 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 "you're" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #625,102 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mora" and "you're" 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 #625,102 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