intertitle
noun, verb
intertitle is a noun meaning “A piece of static text inserted into the film to provide context or other information” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled I-N-T-E-R-T-I-T-L-E, and it appears about once in every 85 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of intertitle is intertitles.
What does intertitle mean?
noun
- 1
A piece of static text inserted into the film to provide context or other information.
The film made frequent use of intertitles: every scene change was accompanied by text describing the new location.
verb
- 1
To insert text into a film in this way.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of intertitle
- intertitles plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- intertitling participle, present
- intertitled participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is intertitle?
Intertitle appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th 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).
Intertitle in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense cinematography: piece of static text inserted into a film:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | intertítulo |
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 intertitle come from?
From inter- + title.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).