mobiliser
French, verb/mɔ.bi.li.ze/
mobiliser is spelled M-O-B-I-L-I-S-E-R (9 letters) and appears 5.8 times per million words in written French, the 10,141st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mobiliser is a French verb meaning “to mobilize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire appel à, mettre en œuvre des forces physiques ou intellectuelles”.
What does mobiliser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to mobilize
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire appel à, mettre en œuvre des forces physiques ou intellectuelles. 2. Mettre au service des autorités militaires. 3. Ameublir, faire une convention en vertu de laquelle un immeuble réel ou réputé tel est considéré comme meuble. 4. Mettre une armée sur le pied de guerre en rappelant ses réserves.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of mobiliser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- mobilisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- mobilisé participle past
- mobilise first-person indicative present
- mobilises indicative present second-person
- mobilisons first-person indicative plural
- mobilisez indicative plural present
- mobilisent indicative plural present
- mobilisais first-person imperfect indicative
- mobilisait imperfect indicative singular
- mobilisions first-person imperfect indicative
- mobilisiez imperfect indicative plural
- mobilisaient imperfect indicative plural
- mobilisai first-person historic indicative
- mobilisas historic indicative past
- mobilisa historic indicative past
- mobilisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mobiliser?
- /mɔ.bi.li.ze/
- \mɔ.bi.li.ze\
- [mɔbilize]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to mobiliser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mobiliser in French?
mobiliser appears 5.8 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).