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.
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?
In ordinary French text, does "immobilière" or "immobiliser" show up more?
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.