antialiasing
/ˈæn.tiˈeɪ.li.əs.ɪŋ/noun
antialiasing is a noun meaning “any technique that reduces the appearance of jagged edges in digital images caused by high-contrast borders between pixels” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-I-A-L-I-A-S-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 30 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does antialiasing mean?
noun
- 1
any technique that reduces the appearance of jagged edges in digital images caused by high-contrast borders between pixels.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce antialiasing?
- /ˈæn.tiˈeɪ.li.əs.ɪŋ/
- /ˈæn.tɑɪ̯ˈeɪ.li.əs.ɪŋ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-antialiasing.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of antialiasing
- anti-aliasing
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is antialiasing?
Antialiasing appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 165,739th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Antialiasing in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense any technique that reduces aliasing:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | anticrènelage |
| German | Antialiasing, Kantenglättung |
| Portuguese | anti-aliasing, antialiasing, antisserrilhamento |
| Spanish | antiplegamiento, suavizado, antialiasing (antiéiliesin), antiserración |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does antialiasing come from?
From anti- + aliasing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).