mobiliervsmobilitéWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#6,716
“mobilier” frequency rank
#5,263
“mobilité” frequency rank
11979
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mobilier mobilité
Definition Relatif aux biens meubles. Facilité à être mû.

Where the eye mixes mobilier and mobilité

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. mobilier (CVCVCVVC) and mobilité (CVCVCVCV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

8 ch
mobilier
8 ch
mobilité

Look-alike desk: mobilier vs mobilité

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: mobilier is \mɔ.bi.lje\ while mobilité is \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 11979, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mobilier is recorded at frequency rank #6,716, classified as anadj, pronounced \mɔ.bi.lje\. mobilité is at rank #5,263, tagged as anoun, pronounced \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 11979, this pair ranks #407,044 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of mobilier vs mobilité

Shared letters: bilmo. Private to "mobilier": er. Private to "mobilité": té.

"mobilier" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVVC  ·  "mobilité" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • mobilier ← mboilier · mmobilier · mobbilier · mobiiler · mobileir · mobilierr · mobilire · mobillier

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "mobilier" and "mobilité" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mobilier" is an adjective and "mobilité" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "mobilier" or "mobilité"?
"mobilité" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,263 in our French list, against #6,716 for "mobilier". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "mobilier" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "mobilité" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #407,044 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mobilier" and "mobilité" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mobilité vs morbidité". 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 #407,044 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