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filetype

filetype noun: an identifier indicating the type of information contained in an electronic format.

Noun

filetype (plural filetypes)

  1. An identifier indicating the type of information contained in an electronic format.

Verb

filetype (third-person singular simple present filetypes, present participle filetyping, simple past and past participle filetyped)

  1. To assign a type to a file.
    • This software searches the directory and attempts to filetype all the files in it.

Forms of filetype

Noun
pluralfiletypes
Verb
third-person singular presentfiletypes
present participlefiletyping
past participlefiletyped
pastfiletyped

Origin of filetype

From file + type.

Questions about filetype

What does filetype mean?
Filetype means an identifier indicating the type of information contained in an electronic format.
What part of speech is filetype?
Filetype can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of filetype?
The plural of filetype is filetypes.

Words near filetype in the dictionary

  1. fileteado
  2. fileted
  3. fileting
  4. filets
  5. filets mignons
  6. filetype
  7. filetyped
  8. filetypes
  9. filetyping
  10. fileworthy
  11. Filey

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Adapted from Wiktionary: filetype (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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