Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

code unit

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.71 in modern English

Syllables: code u-nit
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A minimum bit combination that can represent a single character in a given character encoding, such as 7-bit in classic ASCII or 8-bit in UTF-8.

Inflected Forms

code units (plural)

Questions

What does code unit mean?: A minimum bit combination that can represent a single character in a given character encoding, such as 7-bit in classic ASCII or 8-bit in UTF-8.

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