morra
/ˈmɔːɹə/
"morra" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“morra” is uncommon English (frequency #89,652 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,652
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 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.
Corpus desk
Index EN-morra · morra · English
morra · rank #89,652 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,652
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH moneylender
Nearest frequency peer: moneylender (-4 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “morra”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Molineux
Molineux
10,355 corpus weight
- Mondragon
Mondragon
10,354 corpus weight
- moneylender
moneylender
10,353 corpus weight
- morra
morra
10,349 corpus weight
- mukti
mukti
10,344 corpus weight
- multicore
multicore
10,343 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “morra” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | morra |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmɔːɹə/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #89,652 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “morra” in English
Rare enough to double-check
morra is uncommon English at frequency #89,652 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈmɔːɹə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for morra, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Italian morra; further etymology is unknown. The correct English form is morra, spelled M-O-R-R-A.
Definition
- 1A 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.
Etymology
From Italian morra; further etymology is unknown.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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