# moms vs moor

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### moms
*noun · IPA /mɒmz/ · frequency rank #8,827*
plural of mom

### moor
*noun · IPA /mʊə/ · frequency rank #18,371*
An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light (and usually acidic) soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath. (Compare bog, peatland, marsh, swamp, fen.)

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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