immobilièrevsimmobiliserWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: immobilière is a adjective, immobiliser is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“immobilière” is an adjective and “immobiliser” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#9,496
“immobilière” frequency rank
#30,211
“immobiliser” frequency rank
39707
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature immobilière immobiliser
Definition Féminin singulier de immobilier. Maintenir dans l’immobilité.

Where the eye mixes immobilière and immobiliser

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 9 letters in sequence. immobilière (VCCVCVCVVCV) and immobiliser (VCCVCVCVCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

11 ch
immobilière
11 ch
immobiliser

Look-alike desk: immobilière vs immobiliser

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: immobilière is \i.mɔ.bi.ljɛʁ\ while immobiliser is \i(m).mɔ.bi.li.ze\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 39707, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

immobilière is recorded at frequency rank #9,496, classified as anadj, pronounced \i.mɔ.bi.ljɛʁ\. immobiliser is at rank #30,211, tagged as averb, pronounced \i(m).mɔ.bi.li.ze\.

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 39707, this pair ranks #245,982 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of immobilière vs immobiliser

Shared letters: beilmor. Private to "immobilière": è. Private to "immobiliser": s.

"immobilière" · 11 letters · shape VCCVCVCVVCV  ·  "immobiliser" · 11 letters · shape VCCVCVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • immobiliser ← immboiliser · immobbiliser · immobiilser · immobiliserr · immobilisre · immobilisser · immobilliser · immobilsier

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "immobilière" and "immobiliser" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "immobilière" is an adjective and "immobiliser" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "immobilière" or "immobiliser" show up more?
"immobilière" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #9,496 in our French list, against #30,211 for "immobiliser". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Eye-level mix-up between "immobilière" and "immobiliser" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "immobilière" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "immobiliser" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #245,982 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "immobilière" and "immobiliser" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "immobilise vs immobiliser". 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 #245,982 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