installer
French, verb/ɛ̃s.ta.le/
installer is spelled I-N-S-T-A-L-L-E-R (9 letters) and appears 32 times per million words in written French, the 2,514th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Installer is a French verb meaning “to install” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mettre solennellement en possession d’une place, d’un emploi, d’une dignité”.
What does installer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to install
- 2
to place
- 3
to settle
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mettre solennellement en possession d’une place, d’un emploi, d’une dignité. 2. Placer, disposer quelqu’un ou quelque chose à un endroit. 3. Installer un programme, un logiciel, une application mobile : l’intégrer dans un ordinateur ou un smartphone avant de pouvoir s’en servir. 4. Chercher à en imposer, plastronner, crâner. (Souvent précédé de en)
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of installer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- installant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- installé participle past
- installe first-person indicative present
- installes indicative present second-person
- installons first-person indicative plural
- installez indicative plural present
- installent indicative plural present
- installais first-person imperfect indicative
- installait imperfect indicative singular
- installions first-person imperfect indicative
- installiez imperfect indicative plural
- installaient imperfect indicative plural
- installai first-person historic indicative
- installas historic indicative past
- installa historic indicative past
- installâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce installer?
- /ɛ̃s.ta.le/
- \ɛ̃s.ta.le\
- [ɛ̃s.ta.le]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to installer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is installer in French?
installer appears 32 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).