installes

\ɛ̃s.tal\

/\ɛ̃s.tal\/ verb

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The verdict

“installes” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,160. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#49,160
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
11
confusable pairs

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

Corpus desk

Index FR-installes · installes · French

installes · rank #49,160 · 12 variants · 11 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #49,160
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH insistante

Nearest frequency peer: insistante (-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 « installes »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « installes » 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).

installes vs instances
78% similar
installes vs installez
89% similar
installes vs installe
89% similar

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

Key facts for installes
PropertyValue
Headwordinstalles
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɛ̃s.tal\
Letters9
Frequency rank#49,160
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « installes »

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

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « insistante » (#49,159), « intensifient » (#49,161), « insipides » (#49,158). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « installes » est au #49,160. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around installes (IPA \ɛ̃s.tal\), averb. Corpus frequency is #49,160 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for installes, with forms such as "innstalles", "insatlles", and "insstalles". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "instances", "installez", "installe", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is installes, spelled I-N-S-T-A-L-L-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de installer.
  2. 2
    Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de installer.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • innstalles
  • insatlles
  • insstalles
  • instalels
  • instales
  • installess
  • installse
  • instlales
  • insttalles
  • intsalles
  • isntalles
  • nistalles

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

innstalles1insatlles2insstalles1instalels2instales1installess1installse2instlales2
Edit distance from "installes"

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 "installes"?
"installes" is spelled I-N-S-T-A-L-L-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃s.tal\.
What does "installes" mean?
As a verb, "installes" means: Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de installer.
What words are commonly confused with "installes"?
"installes" is commonly confused with "instances", "installez", "installe". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "installes"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "installes" is \ɛ̃s.tal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "installes" come from?
"installes" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

insipides#49,158intégrera#49,165intéressa#49,166inventive#49,167

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

infondée12 variantsJongleur12 variantsGuilbert12 variantsgolfeurs12 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list