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intertype

adjective

intertype is an adjective meaning “Between data types” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled I-N-T-E-R-T-Y-P-E, and it appears about once in every 63 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does intertype mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Between data types.

    intertype declarations in aspect-oriented programming

noun

as Intertype
  1. 1

    A typecasting machine closely resembling the linotype, and using the same matrices.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is intertype?

Intertype appears about once in every 63 million words in written English, the 249,463rd 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).

Where does intertype come from?

From inter- + type.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).