installait
\ɛ̃s.ta.lɛ\
The verdict
“installait” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,950. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,950
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de installer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-installait · installait · French
installait · rank #42,950 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,950
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH INRIA
Nearest frequency peer: INRIA (-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 « installait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- inique
inique
57,054 corpus weight
- injectée
injectée
57,053 corpus weight
- INRIA
INRIA
57,052 corpus weight
- installait
installait
57,051 corpus weight
- instantanés
instantanés
57,050 corpus weight
- instinctive
instinctive
57,049 corpus weight
What this shows « installait » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | installait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃s.ta.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #42,950 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « installait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around installait (IPA \ɛ̃s.ta.lɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #42,950 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de installer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for installait, with forms such as "innstallait", "insatllait", and "insstallait". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "installent", "installant", "installa", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is installait, spelled I-N-S-T-A-L-L-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de installer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how installait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un bal forain, couvert de toile, s’installait d’ordinaire dans les prés de l’Aigre ; et il y avait, sur la route, en face de la mairie, trois baraques, un tir, un camelot, vendant de tout, jusqu’à des rubans, et un jeu de tournevire, où l’on gagnait des sucres d’orge.
Et sous l’effet de cette perfusion transfrontalière, des territoires moribonds revenaient à la vie, une école était sauvée, un boulanger s’installait au pied d’une église zombie, des maisons champignonnaient soudain en pleine campagne.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- innstallait
- insatllait
- insstallait
- instalait
- instalalit
- installaitt
- installati
- installiat
- instlalait
- insttallait
- intsallait
- isntallait
- nistallait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of installait - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).