Which to use
“immobile” and “immobiles” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #14,701
- “immobile” frequency rank
- #33,730
- “immobiles” frequency rank
- 48431
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | immobile | immobiles |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui ne se meut pas. | Pluriel de immobile. |
Same sound, different letters: immobile vs immobiles
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. immobile runs 8 letters (VCCVCVCV) against immobiles's 9 (VCCVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - immobile and immobiles
This is the hard kind. immobile and immobiles are pronounced identically (\i.mɔ.bil\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “immobile” sits inside “immobiles”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 48431, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
immobile is recorded at frequency rank #14,701, classified as anadj, pronounced \i.mɔ.bil\. immobiles is at rank #33,730, tagged as anadj, pronounced \i.mɔ.bil\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 48431, this pair ranks #178,994 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of immobile vs immobiles
Shared letters: beilmo. Private to "immobile": -. Private to "immobiles": s.
"immobile" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVCV · "immobiles" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "immobile" for "immobiles" ever safe?
Which is more common, "immobile" or "immobiles"?
After this comparison
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "immobile" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "immobiles" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #178,994 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "immobile" and "immobiles" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "immobiles vs immobilise". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #178,994 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.