Which to use
“installe” and “installes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #5,255
- “installe” frequency rank
- #49,160
- “installes” frequency rank
- 54415
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | installe | installes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de installer. | Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de installer. |
Same sound, different letters: installe vs installes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. installe runs 8 letters (VCCCVCCV) against installes's 9 (VCCCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: installe vs installes
This is the hard kind. installe and installes are pronounced identically (\ɛ̃s.tal\) and both work as averb. 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) - “installe” sits inside “installes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54415, 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\. installes is at rank #49,160, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɛ̃s.tal\.
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 54415, this pair ranks #134,198 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of installe vs installes
Shared letters: aeilnst. Private to "installe": -. Private to "installes": -.
"installe" · 8 letters · shape VCCCVCCV · "installes" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "installe" and "installes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "installe" vs "installes" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
"installe" and "installes" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "installe" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "installes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #134,198 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "installe" and "installes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "installera 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 #134,198 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.