How to spell mobile

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What it means: Able to be moved easily.

In a sentence: The mobile phone rang with a cheerful song.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as mobil or mobiel.

Same family: mobility, mobilize, immobile, social-mobility, upwardly-mobile. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Mobile comes from Latin "mobilis," meaning "movable" or "easy to move." Over time, English extended the idea of physical movement to social movement, so a "mobile" person or society can change status or position more easily.

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