installeur
\ɛ̃s.ta.lœʁ\
The verdict
“installeur” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui cherche à en imposer, crâneur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-installeur · installeur · French
installeur · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "I" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | installeur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃s.ta.lœʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « installeur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
installeur is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃s.ta.lœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui cherche à en imposer, crâneur.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for installeur, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 installeur, spelled I-N-S-T-A-L-L-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Qui cherche à en imposer, crâneur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how installeur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
– Cette espèce de cloche mondaine, me dit Pater, s’est amené en faisant l’important et l’installeur. Messieurs, je ne suis pas à vos ordres, qu’il a dit, tu te rends compte ? comme s’il payait de sa poche, ce raidard, qui joue au patron avec l’oseille des chleuhs. C’t’un monde !
La seconde amenait dans sa roue un vioc, très rupin, que suivait un chauffeur en livrée chargé du porte-musique. Dick, qui n’aimait pas ce style caravanier, en avait à l’avance épais contre cette greluche installeuse...
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.