Which to use
“installe” and “installée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #5,255
- “installe” frequency rank
- #6,207
- “installée” frequency rank
- 11462
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | installe | installée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de installer. | Participe passé féminin singulier de installer. |
Where the eye mixes installe and installée
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 8 letters in sequence. installe runs 8 letters (VCCCVCCV) against installée's 9 (VCCCVCCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Why the eye confuses installe with installée
A purely visual mix-up. installe (\ɛ̃s.tal\) and installée (\ɛ̃s.ta.le\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 11462, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
installe is recorded at frequency rank #5,255, classified as averb, pronounced \ɛ̃s.tal\. installée is at rank #6,207, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɛ̃s.ta.le\.
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 11462, this pair ranks #409,069 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of installe vs installée
Shared letters: aeilnst. Private to "installe": -. Private to "installée": é.
"installe" · 8 letters · shape VCCCVCCV · "installée" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
- installe ← innstalle · insatlle · insstalle · instale · instalel · instlale · insttalle · intsalle
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "installe" and "installée" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "installe" or "installée" show up more?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "installe" and "installée" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "installe" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "installée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #409,069 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "installe" and "installée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "installée vs installes". 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 #409,069 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.