Which to use
“installent” and “installes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #14,061
- “installent” frequency rank
- #49,160
- “installes” frequency rank
- 63221
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | installent | installes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de installer. | Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de installer. |
Same sound, different letters: installent vs installes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters.
Homophone desk: installent vs installes
This is the hard kind. installent 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 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 63221, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
installent is recorded at frequency rank #14,061, 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 63221, this pair ranks #83,119 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of installent vs installes
Shared letters: aeilnst. Private to "installent": -. Private to "installes": -.
"installent" · 10 letters · shape VCCCVCCVCC · "installes" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- installent ← innstallent · insatllent · insstallent · instalelnt · instalent · installennt · installentt · installetn
- installes ← innstalles · insatlles · insstalles · instalels · instales · installess · installse · instlales
Frequently Asked Questions
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Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "installent" / "installes". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "installent" 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 #83,119 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "installent" 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 #83,119 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.