Home › Words › P › pretypepretypepretype means to type in advance.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, pretype ranks #36,618 of 42,749 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom pre- + type.verbTo type in advance.e.g.“However, some web servers have timeouts on how long they'll wait for a request, so it can be useful to pretype the request and then just paste it into Telnet.” — 2014, David Sklar, Adam Trachtenberg, PHP Cookbook: Solutions & Examples for PHP Programmers:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.foretypified 72% match — Typified beforehand. vs pretype →foretype 70% match — A type or figure occurring beforehand or in advance; forerunner; predecessor; prototype vs pretype →preformat 69% match — To format in advance. vs pretype →prepaste 69% match — To paste in advance. vs pretype →preedit 68% match — To edit (something) in advance. vs pretype →preapply 68% match — To apply in advance. vs pretype →pretape 67% match — To tape in advance. vs pretype →prefit 66% match — To fit in advance. vs pretype →