Which to use
“installées” and “installer” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #12,178
- “installées” frequency rank
- #2,520
- “installer” frequency rank
- 14698
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | installées | installer |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin pluriel de installer. | Mettre solennellement en possession d’une place, d’un emploi, d’une dignité. |
Same sound, different letters: installées vs installer
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. installées runs 10 letters (VCCCVCCVVC) against installer's 9 (VCCCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - installées / installer
This is the hard kind. installées and installer 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 differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 14698, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
installées is recorded at frequency rank #12,178, classified as averb, pronounced \ɛ̃s.ta.le\. installer is at rank #2,520, 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 14698, this pair ranks #395,567 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of installées vs installer
Shared letters: aeilnst. Private to "installées": é. Private to "installer": r.
"installées" · 10 letters · shape VCCCVCCVVC · "installer" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- installer ← innstaller · insatller · insstaller · instalelr · instaler · installerr · installre · instlaler
Frequently Asked Questions
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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 "installées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "installer" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #395,567 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "installées" and "installer" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "installées 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 #395,567 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.