fullwidth
adjective
fullwidth is an adjective meaning “Of a text character, occupying the space of two alphanumeric characters in a monospace font, or two "normal" text columns” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-L-L-W-I-D-T-H, and it appears about once in every 91 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does fullwidth mean?
adjective
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Of a text character, occupying the space of two alphanumeric characters in a monospace font, or two "normal" text columns.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fullwidth
- full-width
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fullwidth?
Fullwidth appears about once in every 91 million words in written English, the 305,310th 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).
Fullwidth in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense occupying two columns on a traditional text display:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | pleine chasse |
| German | vollbreit |
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 fullwidth come from?
From full + width, as a calque of Japanese 全角 (zenkaku).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).