installa

\ɛ̃s.ta.la\

/\ɛ̃s.ta.la\/ verb

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The verdict

“installa” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,586. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#23,586
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
9
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de installer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-installa · installa · French

installa · rank #23,586 · 10 variants · 9 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #23,586
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH intensément

Nearest frequency peer: intensément (+1 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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « installa »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « installa » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

installa vs installe
88% similar
installa vs installer
78% similar
installa vs installée
78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for installa
PropertyValue
Headwordinstalla
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɛ̃s.ta.la\
Letters8
Frequency rank#23,586
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « installa »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.installase place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « intensément » (#23,587), « influencent » (#23,584), « io » (#23,588). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « installa » est au #23,586. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around installa (IPA \ɛ̃s.ta.la\), averb. Corpus frequency is #23,586 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de installer.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for installa, with forms such as "innstalla", "insatlla", and "insstalla". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "installe", "installer", "installée", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is installa, spelled I-N-S-T-A-L-L-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de installer.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how installa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Quand la compagnie installa des hauts-parleurs dans la manufacture, les ouvrières qui travaillaient le soir pouvaient entendre le chapelet à la radio.
  2. Camille s’installa plus à l’ombre, ôta sa veste et s’absorba deux bonnes heures dans l’examen attentif des Meule à eau avec disque de mortifiage, Pompe vide-cave turbine double-isolement et autres astuces réconfortantes autant qu’édifiantes.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • innstalla
  • insatlla
  • insstalla
  • instala
  • instalal
  • instlala
  • insttalla
  • intsalla
  • isntalla
  • nistalla

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of installa - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

innstalla1insatlla2insstalla1instala1instalal2instlala2insttalla1intsalla2
Edit distance from "installa"

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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "installa"?
"installa" is spelled I-N-S-T-A-L-L-A. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃s.ta.la\.
What does "installa" mean?
As a verb, "installa" means: Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de installer.
What words are commonly confused with "installa"?
"installa" is commonly confused with "installe", "installer", "installée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "installa"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "installa" is \ɛ̃s.ta.la\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "installa" come from?
"installa" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list