installe

\ɛ̃s.tal\

/\ɛ̃s.tal\/ verb

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The verdict

“installe” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,255. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#5,255
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
12
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de installer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-installe · installe · French

installe · rank #5,255 · 10 variants · 12 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #5,255
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH insulte

Nearest frequency peer: insulte (+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 « installe »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « installe » 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).

installe vs instance
75% similar
installe vs instaure
75% similar
installe vs installer
89% similar

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

Key facts for installe
PropertyValue
Headwordinstalle
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɛ̃s.tal\
Letters8
Frequency rank#5,255
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « installe »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).installese place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « insulte » (#5,256), « indiquer » (#5,253), « imaginez » (#5,252). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « installe » est au #5,255. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around installe (IPA \ɛ̃s.tal\), averb. Corpus frequency is #5,255 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for installe, with forms such as "innstalle", "insatlle", and "insstalle". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "instance", "instaure", "installer", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is installe, spelled I-N-S-T-A-L-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de installer.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de installer.
  3. 3
    Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de installer.
  4. 4
    Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de installer.
  5. 5
    Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de installer.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Je retourne auprès de la bonniche en digue-digue, la soulève — je ne sais pas comment elle est nourrie, mais elle ne pèse pas lourd —, la transporte dans le salon et l’installe sur le canapé en question.
  2. Je m’installe sur le mini-balcon de ma chambre et je décapsule une canette, puis une deuxième.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • innstalle
  • insatlle
  • insstalle
  • instale
  • instalel
  • instlale
  • insttalle
  • intsalle
  • isntalle
  • nistalle

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of installe - 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.

innstalle1insatlle2insstalle1instale1instalel2instlale2insttalle1intsalle2
Edit distance from "installe"

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 "installe"?
"installe" is spelled I-N-S-T-A-L-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃s.tal\.
What does "installe" mean?
As a verb, "installe" means: Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de installer.
What words are commonly confused with "installe"?
"installe" is commonly confused with "instance", "instaure", "installer". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "installe"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "installe" is \ɛ̃s.tal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "installe" come from?
"installe" 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 "installe", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

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

indiquer#5,253imaginez#5,252horaires#5,251mobilité#5,263

Similar misspelling depth

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

insulte10 variantsnoblesse10 variantsportail10 variantschemise10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list