# moor

> English word · Noun · IPA /mʊə/ · frequency rank #18,371

## Definitions
1. 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.)
2. A game preserve consisting of moorland.

## Etymology
From Middle English mor, from Old English mōr, from Proto-West Germanic *mōr, from Proto-Germanic *mōraz, from Proto-Indo-European *móri. Cognates include Welsh môr, Old Irish muir (from Proto-Celtic *mori); Scots muir, Dutch moer, Old Saxon mōr, Old Saxon mūr, German Moor and perhaps also Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹 (marei). See mere.

## Easily confused with
- **Mr** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/moor-vs-mr)
- **MoS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/moor-vs-mos)
- **mop** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/moor-vs-mop)
- **MOR** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/moor-vs-mor)
- **mou** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/moor-vs-mou)
- **mot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/moor-vs-mot)
- **mow** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/moor-vs-mow)
- **Moz** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/moor-vs-moz)
- **more** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/moor-vs-more)
- **most** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/moor-vs-most)
- **move** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/moor-vs-move)
- **moss** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/moor-vs-moss)
- **moth** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/moor-vs-moth)
- **moto** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/moor-vs-moto)
- **muir** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/moor-vs-muir)
- **moot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/moor-vs-moot)
- **Mori** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/moor-vs-mori)
- **mora** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/moor-vs-mora)
- **mort** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/moor-vs-mort)
- **morn** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/moor-vs-morn)

## Common misspellings (3)
`mmoor`, `moorr`, `omor`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/moor