installaient
\ɛ̃s.ta.lɛ\
The verdict
“installaient” is uncommon French (frequency #66,018 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,018
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de installer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-installaient · installaient · French
installaient · rank #66,018 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,018
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH insolents
Nearest frequency peer: insolents (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « installaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- infiniti
infiniti
33,986 corpus weight
- iniquités
iniquités
33,985 corpus weight
- insolents
insolents
33,984 corpus weight
- installaient
installaient
33,983 corpus weight
- intercéder
intercéder
33,982 corpus weight
- interdisons
interdisons
33,981 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « installaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | installaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃s.ta.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #66,018 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « installaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
installaient is uncommon French at frequency #66,018 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ̃s.ta.lɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de installer.".
installaient has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is installaient, spelled I-N-S-T-A-L-L-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de installer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how installaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce n’était qu’un signe de plus du laisser-aller général, du j’menfoutisme et du bordel systématique qui s’installaient partout !
Une fois rabibochés, les régiments se regroupaient par secteurs et installaient leurs tentes de cantonnement dans ce qui était devenu une vaste ville de toile en marge de la casbah aux murs blancs, toute proche.
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.
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