mobilisévsmobiliserWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: mobilisé is a noun, mobiliser is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“mobilisé” is a noun and “mobiliser” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#15,189
“mobilisé” frequency rank
#10,199
“mobiliser” frequency rank
25388
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mobilisé mobiliser
Definition Civil appelé sous les drapeaux pour raison de guerre. Faire appel à, mettre en œuvre des forces physiques ou intellectuelles.

Same sound, different letters: mobilisé vs mobiliser

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. mobilisé runs 8 letters (CVCVCVCV) against mobiliser's 9 (CVCVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
mobilisé
9 ch
mobiliser

Ear matches; page differs - mobilisé and mobiliser

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: mobilisé and mobiliser carry the same recorded pronunciation, \mɔ.bi.li.ze\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anoun, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 25388, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mobilisé is recorded at frequency rank #15,189, classified as anoun, pronounced \mɔ.bi.li.ze\. mobiliser is at rank #10,199, tagged as averb, pronounced \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 25388, this pair ranks #341,160 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of mobilisé vs mobiliser

Shared letters: bilmos. Private to "mobilisé": é. Private to "mobiliser": er.

"mobilisé" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVCV  ·  "mobiliser" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • mobiliser ← mboiliser · mmobiliser · mobbiliser · mobiilser · mobiliesr · mobiliserr · mobilisre · mobilisser

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "mobilisé" for "mobiliser" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mobilisé" is a noun and "mobiliser" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "mobilisé" vs "mobiliser" - which ranks higher?
"mobiliser" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #10,199 in our French list, against #15,189 for "mobilisé". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

"mobilisé" and "mobiliser" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "mobilisé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "mobiliser" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #341,160 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mobilisé" and "mobiliser" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mobilisé vs mobilisées". 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 #341,160 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