mobiliser

\mɔ.bi.li.ze\

/\mɔ.bi.li.ze\/ verb

The verdict

“mobiliser” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,199. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#10,199
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
10
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire appel à, mettre en œuvre des forces physiques ou intellectuelles.

Corpus desk

Index FR-mobiliser · mobiliser · French

mobiliser · rank #10,199 · 13 variants · 10 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #10,199
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH minéraux

Nearest frequency peer: minéraux (-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 « mobiliser »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « mobiliser » 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).

mobiliser vs mobilité
67% similar
mobiliser vs mobilisés
78% similar
mobiliser vs mobilités
67% similar

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

Key facts for mobiliser
PropertyValue
Headwordmobiliser
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\mɔ.bi.li.ze\
Letters9
Frequency rank#10,199
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mobiliser »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.mobiliserse 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 « minéraux » (#10,198), « montent » (#10,200), « minuscule » (#10,197). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « mobiliser » est au #10,199. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around mobiliser (IPA \mɔ.bi.li.ze\), averb. Corpus frequency is #10,199 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for mobiliser, with forms such as "mboiliser", "mmobiliser", and "mobbiliser". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "mobilité", "mobilisés", "mobilités", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is mobiliser, spelled M-O-B-I-L-I-S-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Faire appel à, mettre en œuvre des forces physiques ou intellectuelles.
  2. 2
    Mettre au service des autorités militaires.
  3. 3
    Ameublir, faire une convention en vertu de laquelle un immeuble réel ou réputé tel est considéré comme meuble.
  4. 4
    Mettre une armée sur le pied de guerre en rappelant ses réserves.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Élaborer un jeu vidéo est une entreprise collective de longue haleine qui mobilise plusieurs dizaines de personnes sur une longue période, plusieurs années parfois.
  2. La 8ᵉ force aérienne avait d'abord calculé qu'il lui faudrait achever 61 aérodromes avant la fin 1943 ; mais elle finit par en construire 120, mobilisant un million de mois-hommes de travail, et couvrant 42 millions de mètres carrés de béton.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • mboiliser
  • mmobiliser
  • mobbiliser
  • mobiilser
  • mobiliesr
  • mobiliserr
  • mobilisre
  • mobilisser
  • mobilliser
  • mobilsier
  • mobliiser
  • moibliser
  • ombiliser

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mobiliser - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

mboiliser2mmobiliser1mobbiliser1mobiilser2mobiliesr2mobiliserr1mobilisre2mobilisser1
Edit distance from "mobiliser"

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 "mobiliser"?
"mobiliser" is spelled M-O-B-I-L-I-S-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \mɔ.bi.li.ze\.
What does "mobiliser" mean?
As a verb, "mobiliser" means: Faire appel à, mettre en œuvre des forces physiques ou intellectuelles.
What words are commonly confused with "mobiliser"?
"mobiliser" is commonly confused with "mobilité", "mobilisés", "mobilités". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "mobiliser"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mobiliser" is \mɔ.bi.li.ze\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mobiliser" come from?
"mobiliser" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list