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morra

/ˈmɔːɹə/noun

morra is spelled M-O-R-R-A: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 89,388th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, morra means “A game in which two (or more) players each suddenly display a hand showing zero to five fingers and call out what they think will be the sum of all…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in morra?

Letters5: M-O-R-R-A
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 9 million words; the 89,388th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is morra?

Morra appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 89,388th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce morra?

  • /ˈmɔːɹə/
  • /ˈmɒɹə/

Morra has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Words people confuse with morra

Also written: mora.

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with morra?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as morra.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: armor.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

What does morra mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A game in which two (or more) players each suddenly display a hand showing zero to five fingers and call out what they think will be the sum of all fingers shown.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Morra in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Translations:

LanguageWords
GermanMora
Spanishmorra

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does morra come from?

From Italian morra; further etymology is unknown.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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