McRaevsmoreTell them apart

Quick tell: McRae is a name, more is a determiner, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“McRae” is a name and “more” is a determiner - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#41,759
“McRae” frequency rank
#49
“more” frequency rank
41808
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature McRae more
Definition A surname from Scottish Gaelic. comparative degree of many: in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.)

Letter map: McRae vs more

Shared letters muted; letters that set McRae and more apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch
McRae
4 ch
more

Role in the sentence - McRae and more

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: McRae is aname and moreadeterminer. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 41808, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

McRae is recorded at frequency rank #41,759, classified as aname. more is at rank #49, tagged as adet, pronounced /mɔː(ɹ)/.

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 41808, this pair ranks #254,990 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of McRae vs more

Shared letters: emr. Private to "McRae": ac. Private to "more": o.

"McRae" · 5 letters · shape CCCVV  ·  "more" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • McRaecmrae · mcare · mccrae · mcrea · mcrrae · mmcrae · mrcae
  • moremmore · moer · morre · mroe · omre

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "McRae" for "more" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "McRae" is a name and "more" a determiner, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary English text, does "McRae" or "more" show up more?
"more" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #49 in our English list, against #41,759 for "McRae". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Pair "McRae" vs "more" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "McRae" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "more" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #254,990 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "McRae" and "more" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Marne vs McRae". 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 #254,990 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list