exabyte
/ˈɛksəbaɪt/noun
exabyte is spelled E-X-A-B-Y-T-E: 7 letters and 3 syllables. It appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, exabyte means “One quintillion (10¹⁸, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 petabytes” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of exabyte is exabytes.
How many letters and syllables are in exabyte?
| Letters | 7: E-X-A-B-Y-T-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 49 million words; the 217,360th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is exabyte?
Exabyte appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce exabyte?
- /ˈɛksəbaɪt/
Exabyte has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-exabyte.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of exabyte
- exabytes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does exabyte mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
One quintillion (10¹⁸, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 petabytes.
- 2
informalAn exbibyte.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate exabyte?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of exabyte: EB.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Exabyte in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense 260 or 1018 bytes:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | exabyte |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does exabyte come from?
From exa- + byte.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).