installons

\ɛ̃s.ta.lɔ̃\

/\ɛ̃s.ta.lɔ̃\/ verb

The verdict

“installons” is uncommon French (frequency #64,538 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#64,538
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords

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

Corpus desk

Index FR-installons · installons · French

installons · rank #64,538 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #64,538
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH inscrivit

Nearest frequency peer: inscrivit (-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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « installons »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « installons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for installons
PropertyValue
Headwordinstallons
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɛ̃s.ta.lɔ̃\
Letters10
Frequency rank#64,538
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « installons » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.installonstombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « inscrivit » (#64,537), « intern » (#64,539), « injecteurs » (#64,536). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « installons » est au #64,538. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

installons is uncommon French at frequency #64,538 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ̃s.ta.lɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

No misspelling variants are generated for installons in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 installons, spelled I-N-S-T-A-L-L-O-N-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Première personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de installer.
  2. 2
    Première personne du pluriel de l’impératif de installer.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Depuis plusieurs années déjà, nous livrons gratuitement des lombricomposteurs et installons aussi des composteurs collectifs dans les cours d’immeubles ou à l’échelle de quartiers, là où des Parisiens se montrent intéressés, commence Colombe Brossel, adjointe à la maire, chargée du tri et de la réduction des déchets.
  2. Saisissons cette opportunité pour accélérer à Saint-Cloud l’implantation de panneaux photovoltaïques sur les toits de nos bâtiments, installons des ombrières et lançons un projet de géothermie afin de se chauffer grâce à nos sous-sols !

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 "installons"?
"installons" is spelled I-N-S-T-A-L-L-O-N-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃s.ta.lɔ̃\.
What does "installons" mean?
As a verb, "installons" means: Première personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de installer.
How do you pronounce "installons"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "installons" is \ɛ̃s.ta.lɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "installons" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list