mobiliersvsmobilitésWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#25,399
“mobiliers” frequency rank
#30,706
“mobilités” frequency rank
56105
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mobiliers mobilités
Definition Masculin pluriel de mobilier. Pluriel de mobilité.

Where the eye mixes mobiliers and mobilités

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. mobiliers (CVCVCVVCC) and mobilités (CVCVCVCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

9 ch
mobiliers
9 ch
mobilités

Why the eye confuses mobiliers with mobilités

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: mobiliers is \mɔ.bi.lje\ while mobilités 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 56105, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mobiliers is recorded at frequency rank #25,399, classified as anadj, pronounced \mɔ.bi.lje\. mobilités is at rank #30,706, 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 56105, this pair ranks #123,231 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of mobiliers vs mobilités

Shared letters: bilmos. Private to "mobiliers": er. Private to "mobilités": té.

"mobiliers" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCVVCC  ·  "mobilités" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • mobiliers ← mboiliers · mmobiliers · mobbiliers · mobiilers · mobileirs · mobilierrs · mobilierss · mobilires

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "mobiliers" for "mobilités" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mobiliers" is an adjective and "mobilités" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "mobiliers" vs "mobilités" - which ranks higher?
"mobiliers" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #25,399 in our French list, against #30,706 for "mobilités". 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 "mobiliers" and "mobilités" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "mobiliers" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "mobilités" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #123,231 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mobiliers" and "mobilités" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mobilisées vs mobilités". 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 #123,231 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