immobilise

\i.mɔ.bi.liz\

/\i.mɔ.bi.liz\/ verb

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The verdict

“immobilise” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,713. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#49,713
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de immobiliser.

Corpus desk

Index FR-immobilise · immobilise · French

immobilise · rank #49,713 · 12 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #49,713
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH illegal

Nearest frequency peer: illegal (-1 rank slots)

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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « immobilise »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « immobilise » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

immobilise vs immobilité
80% similar
immobilise vs immobilisme
91% similar
immobilise vs immobiliser
91% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for immobilise
PropertyValue
Headwordimmobilise
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\i.mɔ.bi.liz\
Letters10
Frequency rank#49,713
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « immobilise »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).immobilisese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « illegal » (#49,712), « Imperium » (#49,714), « hésiterais » (#49,711). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « immobilise » est au #49,713. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around immobilise (IPA \i.mɔ.bi.liz\), averb. Corpus frequency is #49,713 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for immobilise, with forms such as "immboilise", "immobbilise", and "immobiilse". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "immobilité", "immobilisme", "immobiliser", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is immobilise, spelled I-M-M-O-B-I-L-I-S-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de immobiliser.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de immobiliser.
  3. 3
    Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de immobiliser.
  4. 4
    Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de immobiliser.
  5. 5
    Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de immobiliser.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how immobilise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Phore et autre s’effacent devant cet Autre, si le sujet s’immobilise, contemplativement se décommunique, s’excommunie.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • immboilise
  • immobbilise
  • immobiilse
  • immobilies
  • immobilisse
  • immobillise
  • immobilsie
  • immobliise
  • immoiblise
  • imobilise
  • imombilise
  • mimobilise

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of immobilise - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

immboilise2immobbilise1immobiilse2immobilies2immobilisse1immobillise1immobilsie2immobliise2
Edit distance from "immobilise"

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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "immobilise"?
"immobilise" is spelled I-M-M-O-B-I-L-I-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \i.mɔ.bi.liz\.
What does "immobilise" mean?
As a verb, "immobilise" means: Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de immobiliser.
What words are commonly confused with "immobilise"?
"immobilise" is commonly confused with "immobilité", "immobilisme", "immobiliser". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "immobilise"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "immobilise" is \i.mɔ.bi.liz\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "immobilise" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "immobilise", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

hésiterais#49,711homologuée#49,707indiscrets#49,719inlassable#49,724

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

herbacée12 variantshalogène12 variantsintranet12 variantsitaliques12 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list