installation

\ɛ̃s.ta.la.sjɔ̃\

/\ɛ̃s.ta.la.sjɔ̃\/ noun

By · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) ·

The verdict

“installation” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,142. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,142
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords
16
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action par laquelle on est installé.

Corpus desk

Index FR-installation · installation · French

installation · rank #3,142 · 16 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,142
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 16 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH industriel

Nearest frequency peer: industriel (-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 « installation »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « installation » 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).

installation vs instauration
83% similar
installation vs installations
92% similar

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

Key facts for installation
PropertyValue
Headwordinstallation
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛ̃s.ta.la.sjɔ̃\
Letters12
Frequency rank#3,142
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « installation »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.installationse 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 « industriel » (#3,141), « internationales » (#3,143), « intégration » (#3,144). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « installation » est au #3,142. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 16 spelling variants around installation (IPA \ɛ̃s.ta.la.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,142 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for installation, with forms such as "innstallation", "insatllation", and "insstallation". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "instauration", "installations", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 installation, spelled I-N-S-T-A-L-L-A-T-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action par laquelle on est installé.
  2. 2
    Arrangement intérieur d’un appartement, d’une maison, d’un bureau, etc.
  3. 3
    Unité de production industrielle.
  4. 4
    Mise en scène d’objets ou d’éléments constituant un environnement.
  5. 5
    Ensemble des actions nécessaires pour rendre un logiciel utilisable sur un ordinateur.
  6. 6
    Cérémonie d’entrée en fonction d’un personnage religieux.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Ils guignaient depuis longtemps, pour leur nouvelle installation, […], une petite boutique, en forme de hangar, avec une vitrine d’une seule glace et une unique pièce sur le derrière.
  2. Depuis son installation, assez récente, à Paris, où il habitait un magnifique hôtel, avenue de Friedland, il avait fait venir au Havre son beau yacht, le dernier raffinement du suprême confort, […].

Synonyms

mise en place

This word in other languages

installation(English)instalación(Español)Installation(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • innstallation
  • insatllation
  • insstallation
  • instalaltion
  • instalation
  • installaiton
  • installatino
  • installationn
  • installatoin
  • installattion
  • installtaion
  • instlalation
  • insttallation
  • intsallation
  • isntallation
  • nistallation

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of installation - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

innstallation1insatllation2insstallation1instalaltion2instalation1installaiton2installatino2installationn1
Edit distance from "installation"

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 "installation"?
"installation" is spelled I-N-S-T-A-L-L-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃s.ta.la.sjɔ̃\.
What does "installation" mean?
As a noun, "installation" means: Action par laquelle on est installé.
What words are commonly confused with "installation"?
"installation" is commonly confused with "instauration", "installations". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "installation"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "installation" is \ɛ̃s.ta.la.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "installation" come from?
"installation" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Yes, PlainSpell is a completely free word reference. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, confusable pairs, homophones, and spelling corrections across 5 languages without any sign-up or subscription.

Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

dispositions#3,194industrielle#3,203introduction#3,080profondément#3,212

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).

disparition16 variantsChristophe16 variantsprésidence16 variantsconsidérer16 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list