tyypeiltään

Tyypeiltään is a Finnish adverb meaning “in terms of type” or “by type.” It is used to describe how a group or set is categorized or distributed according to typological characteristics, rather than by overall size or other attributes. The word is formed from the noun tyyppi (type) and the suffix -ltään, which in this usage signals a perspective based on a particular dimension.

Use of tyypeiltään is common in academic, statistical, and descriptive prose. It helps writers specify that statements pertain to the type composition of a population, object set, or dataset. For example, sentences such as “Kokonaisuus on tyypeiltään heterogeeninen” or “Henkilöstöä tyypeiltään voidaan luokitella neljään pääryhmään” illustrate describing or classifying by type. The expression is typically paired with adjectives like homogeeninen or heterogeeninen, but it can modify other descriptors that express type-based differences.

Tyypeiltään is part of a broader set of terms used in typology and classification. A closely related form is tyypeittäin, which conveys a distribution or breakdown by type in a more enumerative sense, such as in data tables or comparative analyses. Together these expressions help convey how characteristics vary across typological categories rather than across other dimensions.

See also: typology, tyyppiluokitus, tyypeittely, tyypeittäin.