collotype
noun
collotype is a noun meaning “A dichromate-based photographic process formerly used for large-volume mechanical printing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-O-L-L-O-T-Y-P-E, and it appears about once in every 65 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of collotype is collotypes.
What does collotype mean?
noun
- 1
A dichromate-based photographic process formerly used for large-volume mechanical printing.
- 2
An image produced by this process.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of collotype
- collotypes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is collotype?
Collotype appears about once in every 65 million words in written English, the 252,559th 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).
Collotype in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | phototypie , phototype |
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 collotype come from?
From Ancient Greek κόλλα (kólla, “glue”) + -type.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).