.iff

1 claimant 0 primary 1 secondary secondary-only

SWH popularity

From the SWH-MSR-ARV dataset (Desmazières, Di Cosmo, Lorentz, MSR 2025; file nb_extensions_alphanum.csv) — one row per (ext, year) in the full SWH archive. Case-aggregated. citation.

203.9K
total occurrences
87.0K
since 2019 (42.7%)
1994–2023
years active

Case variants in archive: .iff (202.1K), .IFF (1.8K), .Iff (70), .iFF (5) — aggregated above.

Attribution status

This extension is attributed to ilbm — every claim across all sources (including secondary ones) points to a single language.

Authoritative sources: ✗ Linguist · no claim ✗ Pygments · no claim △ Wikidata · secondary ✗ Wikipedia · no claim

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Claimants (1)

Languages that list .iff among their extensions. Strength reflects whether the upstream source treated it as their primary extension.
LanguageSourceStrength
ilbmwikidatasecondary

Wikidata says… (5)

File formats, image formats, audio codecs and other non-PL entities that claim .iff on Wikidata (property P1195) or in the Wikipedia infobox. Source: data/derived/external_extension_index.csv. Click Use as new PL on any row to open the Add-PL form pre-filled with that entry's name, Wikipedia/Wikidata URL, and this extension — one submission creates the PL + claim.
Right entry isn't listed? Add manually ↗
FormatClass (Wikidata P31)Suggested labelMIMENotesAction
8-Bit Sampled Voice Q4645195
file format
file formataudio/8svx; audio/x-8svxUse as new PL ↗
Interchange File Format Q1569639
container file format introduced by Electronic Arts and Commodore
file format; file format familyapplication/x-iffUse as new PL ↗
Interleaved Bitmap Q2389386
file format
raster-graphics file formatbinary:imageimage/x-ilbmUse as new PL ↗

SWH-mined examples (0)

No archived examples for .iff in our local mirror yet.

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