installer

[ɛ̃s.ta.le]

/[ɛ̃s.ta.le]/ verb

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The verdict

“installer” is uncommon German (frequency #78,152 among 1,488 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#78,152
frequency rank, German
1,488
“I” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - einführen, einrichten, einsetzen, installieren

Corpus desk

Index DE-installer · installer · German

installer · rank #78,152 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #78,152
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,488
  • PHOTO-FINISH Innungen

Nearest frequency peer: Innungen (-2 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „installer“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „installer“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for installer
PropertyValue
Headwordinstaller
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ɛ̃s.ta.le]
Letters9
Frequency rank#78,152
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „installer“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).installerfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Innungen“ (#78,150), „innigen“ (#78,149), „Inversion“ (#78,155). Unter 1,488 „I“-Lemmata liegt „installer“ bei #78,152. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

installer is uncommon German at frequency #78,152 among 1,488 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ɛ̃s.ta.le]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "einführen, einrichten, einsetzen, installieren".

Zero misspellings are on record for installer in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is installer, spelled I-N-S-T-A-L-L-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    einführen, einrichten, einsetzen, installieren

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "installer"?
"installer" is spelled I-N-S-T-A-L-L-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is [ɛ̃s.ta.le].
What does "installer" mean?
As a verb, "installer" means: einführen, einrichten, einsetzen, installieren
How do you pronounce "installer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "installer" is [ɛ̃s.ta.le]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "installer", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Inversion#78,155Indikativ#78,143Hundesohn#78,127Holzkreuz#78,123

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list