# Moria

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #46,078

## Definitions
1. A town in Mytilene, Lesbos, North Aegean, Greece in the Aegean, Mediterranean, off the coast of Anatolia.
2. A former settlement in Moria, Mytilene, Lesbos, North Aegean, Greece, an early 21st-century refugee camp that was set ablaze.

## Etymology
From Greek Μόριας (Mórias, “Mória”).

## Easily confused with
- **MRI** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/moria-vs-mri)
- **mRNA** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/moria-vs-mrna)
- **mort** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/moria-vs-mort)
- **morn** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/moria-vs-morn)
- **Myra** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/moria-vs-myra)
- **Moro** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/moria-vs-moro)
- **moya** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/moria-vs-moya)
- **MRSA** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/moria-vs-mrsa)
- **movie** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/moria-vs-movie)
- **moron** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/moria-vs-moron)
- **Morse** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/moria-vs-morse)
- **motif** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/moria-vs-motif)
- **Morty** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/moria-vs-morty)
- **morph** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/moria-vs-morph)
- **Morin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/moria-vs-morin)
- **morris** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/moria-vs-morris)
- **mortal** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/moria-vs-mortal)
- **mortar** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/moria-vs-mortar)
- **myriad** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/moria-vs-myriad)
- **myopia** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/moria-vs-myopia)

## Common misspellings (5)
`mmoria`, `morai`, `morria`, `mroia`, `omria`

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