How to spell mobile

Mobile is spelled M-O-B-I-L-E. It ends -ILE, as in agile and fragile: mo-BILE.

hear itmo·bile/moʊ'bil/adjectiveRules and real life

What it means: Able to be moved easily.

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

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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