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“mobilisé” and “mobilité” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#15,189
“mobilisé” frequency rank
#5,263
“mobilité” frequency rank
20452
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mobilisé mobilité
Definition Civil appelé sous les drapeaux pour raison de guerre. Facilité à être mû.

Where the eye mixes mobilisé and mobilité

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. mobilisé and mobilité follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

8 ch
mobilisé
8 ch
mobilité

Visual trap between mobilisé and mobilité

A purely visual mix-up. mobilisé (\mɔ.bi.li.ze\) and mobilité (\mɔ.bi.li.te\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by a single letter - s in “mobilisé” becomes t in “mobilité”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 20452, 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\. 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 20452, this pair ranks #368,190 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of mobilisé vs mobilité

Shared letters: bilmoé. Private to "mobilisé": s. Private to "mobilité": t.

"mobilisé" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVCV  ·  "mobilité" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVCV

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "mobilisé" and "mobilité" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently (\mɔ.bi.li.ze\ versus \mɔ.bi.li.te\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
In ordinary French text, does "mobilisé" or "mobilité" show up more?
"mobilité" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,263 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.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "mobilisé" 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 #368,190 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mobilisé" and "mobilité" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mobilité vs morbidité". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #368,190 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