Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

qword

/kjuː wɜːd/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: qword
IPA: /kjuː wɜːd/

18

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A quadword: four words, typically used in the same contexts as the fossilized 16-bit sense of "word" and thus 64 bits.

Example Sentences

"On line 7, "X" and "Y" are defined to be qwords. Therefore, each is eight bytes long — the size of a double in C."

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /kjuː wɜːd/

Inflected Forms

qwords (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

word dword xmmword ymmword

Questions

How do you pronounce qword?: The recorded pronunciation is /kjuː wɜːd/.
What does qword mean?: A quadword: four words, typically used in the same contexts as the fossilized 16-bit sense of "word" and thus 64 bits.

How to pronounce qword

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