Which to use
“installée” and “installez” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #6,207
- “installée” frequency rank
- #23,250
- “installez” frequency rank
- 29457
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | installée | installez |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier de installer. | Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de installer. |
Same sound, different letters: installée vs installez
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. installée (VCCCVCCVV) and installez (VCCCVCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Ear matches; page differs - installée and installez
This is the hard kind. installée and installez are pronounced identically (\ɛ̃s.ta.le\) 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 29457, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
installée is recorded at frequency rank #6,207, classified as averb, pronounced \ɛ̃s.ta.le\. installez is at rank #23,250, 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 29457, this pair ranks #316,541 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of installée vs installez
Shared letters: aeilnst. Private to "installée": é. Private to "installez": z.
"installée" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCCVV · "installez" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- installez ← innstallez · insatllez · insstallez · instalelz · instalez · installezz · installze · instlalez
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "installée" and "installez" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "installée" or "installez"?
Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "installée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "installez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #316,541 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "installée" and "installez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "installes vs installez". 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 #316,541 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.