Which to use
“installées” and “installez” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #12,178
- “installées” frequency rank
- #23,250
- “installez” frequency rank
- 35428
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | installées | installez |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin pluriel de installer. | Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de installer. |
Same sound, different letters: installées vs installez
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. installées runs 10 letters (VCCCVCCVVC) against installez's 9 (VCCCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - installées and installez
This is the hard kind. installées 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 differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 35428, 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\. 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 35428, this pair ranks #276,830 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of installées vs installez
Shared letters: aeilnst. Private to "installées": é. Private to "installez": z.
"installées" · 10 letters · shape VCCCVCCVVC · "installez" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- installez ← innstallez · insatllez · insstallez · instalelz · instalez · installezz · installze · instlalez
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "installées" and "installez" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "installées" vs "installez" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
"installées" and "installez" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "installées" 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 #276,830 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "installées" 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 #276,830 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.