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instalment

UK /ɪnˈstɔːl.mənt/noun

instalment is a noun meaning “Australia, UK, and Canada standard spelling of installment” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled I-N-S-T-A-L-M-E-N-T and has 3 syllables, and it appears 1.1 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of instalment is instalments.

What does instalment mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Australia, UK, and Canada standard spelling of installment.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce instalment?

  • UK /ɪnˈstɔːl.mənt/
  • British /ɪnˈstoːl.mənt/
  • /ɪnˈstɔl.mənt/

Instalment has 3 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-installment.wav, EN-AU_ck1_instalment.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of instalment

  • instalments plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is instalment?

Instalment appears 1.1 times per million words in written English, the 27,462nd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).