MoabvsmohTell them apart

Quick tell: Moab is a name, moh is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Moab” is a name and “moh” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#38,056
“Moab” frequency rank
#44,940
“moh” frequency rank
82996
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Moab moh
Definition The son of Lot through his eldest daughter, in the Hebrew Bible. Attachment to the transient material world, which hinders the soul's search for its ultimate goal and is therefore one of the Five Evils.

Letter map: Moab vs moh

Shared letters muted; letters that set Moab and moh apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. Moab runs 4 letters (CVVC) against moh's 3 (CVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
Moab
3 ch
moh

Role in the sentence - Moab and moh

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Moab is aname and mohanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 82996, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Moab is recorded at frequency rank #38,056, classified as aname, pronounced /ˈməʊ.æb/. moh is at rank #44,940, tagged as anoun.

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 82996, this pair ranks #14,679 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of Moab vs moh

Shared letters: mo. Private to "Moab": ab. Private to "moh": h.

"Moab" · 4 letters · shape CVVC  ·  "moh" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Moab ← maob · mmoab · moabb · moba · omab

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Moab" for "moh" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Moab" is a name and "moh" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "Moab" vs "moh" - which ranks higher?
"Moab" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #38,056 in our English list, against #44,940 for "moh". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "Moab" vs "moh" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Moab" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "moh" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #14,679 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Moab" and "moh" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "moh vs Moog". 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 #14,679 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