Which to use
“installation” and “installations” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #3,142
- “installation” frequency rank
- #3,927
- “installations” frequency rank
- 7069
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | installation | installations |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Action par laquelle on est installé. | Pluriel de installation. |
Same sound, different letters: installation vs installations
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 12 letters.
Homophone desk: installation vs installations
This is the hard kind. installation and installations are pronounced identically (\ɛ̃s.ta.la.sjɔ̃\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “installation” sits inside “installations”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 7069, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
installation is recorded at frequency rank #3,142, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɛ̃s.ta.la.sjɔ̃\. installations is at rank #3,927, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɛ̃s.ta.la.sjɔ̃\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 7069, this pair ranks #424,354 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of installation vs installations
Shared letters: ailnost. Private to "installation": -. Private to "installations": -.
"installation" · 12 letters · shape VCCCVCCVCVVC · "installations" · 13 letters · shape VCCCVCCVCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- installation ← innstallation · insatllation · insstallation · instalaltion · instalation · installaiton · installatino · installationn
- installations ← innstallations · insatllations · insstallations · instalaltions · instalations · installaitons · installatinos · installationns
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "installation" and "installations" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "installation" vs "installations" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "installation" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "installations" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #424,354 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "installation" and "installations" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "installation vs instauration". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #424,354 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.