installéevsinstallezConfusable pair

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.

9 ch
installée
9 ch
installez

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?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ɛ̃s.ta.le\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Which is more common, "installée" or "installez"?
"installée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,207 in our French list, against #23,250 for "installez". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

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.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list