immobiliervsimmobilitéConfusable pair

Quick tell: immobilier is a adjective, immobilité is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“immobilier” is an adjective and “immobilité” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#2,578
“immobilier” frequency rank
#43,983
“immobilité” frequency rank
46561
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature immobilier immobilité
Definition Qui est immeuble ou composé de biens immeubles. État de ce qui est immobile.

Where the eye mixes immobilier and immobilité

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 8 letters in sequence. immobilier (VCCVCVCVVC) and immobilité (VCCVCVCVCV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

10 ch
immobilier
10 ch
immobilité

Look-alike desk: immobilier vs immobilité

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: immobilier is \i.mɔ.bi.lje\ while immobilité is \i.mɔ.bi.li.te\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46561, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

immobilier is recorded at frequency rank #2,578, classified as anadj, pronounced \i.mɔ.bi.lje\. immobilité is at rank #43,983, tagged as anoun, pronounced \i.mɔ.bi.li.te\.

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 46561, this pair ranks #193,932 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of immobilier vs immobilité

Shared letters: bilmo. Private to "immobilier": er. Private to "immobilité": té.

"immobilier" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCVCVVC  ·  "immobilité" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • immobilier ← immboilier · immobbilier · immobiiler · immobileir · immobilierr · immobilire · immobillier · immobliier

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "immobilier" and "immobilité" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "immobilier" is an adjective and "immobilité" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "immobilier" or "immobilité" show up more?
"immobilier" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,578 in our French list, against #43,983 for "immobilité". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

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  • Full dictionary entry for "immobilier" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "immobilité" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #193,932 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "immobilier" and "immobilité" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "immobilise vs immobilité". 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 #193,932 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list