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Plural of byte

regular plural

The plural of byte is bytes.

Forms of byte

Singularbyte /baɪt/
Pluralbytes /baɪts/
Countablecountable

Bytes in a sentence

  • The word “hello” fits into five bytes of ASCII code.
  • With a varchar, the storage is always the actual number of characters you have stored plus 2 bytes.2008, Eric Johnson, Joshua Jones, A Developer's Guide to Data Modeling for SQL Server
  • An array of bytes uses its index as the offset, of words a multiple thereof.From the entry offset
  • It actually only requires a few bytes to be zeroised to init the drive.From the entry init
  • In UTF-8, the number of bytes used to write a character to a file depends on the Unicode code point.From the entry code point

Meaning of byte

  1. noun A short sequence of bits (binary digits) that can be operated on as a unit by a computer; the smallest usable machine word.
  2. noun A unit of computing storage equal to eight bits, which can represent any of 256 distinct values.

Full definition of byte

Questions about the plural of byte

What is the plural of byte?
The plural of byte is bytes.
Is byte countable?
Byte is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: byte (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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