Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

weakly-typed

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.01 in modern English

Syllables: weak-ly--typed
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Belonging to a type system that likely will not result in an error if a passed variable does not closely match the expected type.

Example Sentences

"A weakly-typed language will most possibly not generate an error or refuse to compile, if the argument passed to a function does not match the expected type closely."

Synonyms

loosely-typed

Antonyms

strongly-typed

Questions

What does weakly-typed mean?: Belonging to a type system that likely will not result in an error if a passed variable does not closely match the expected type.

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