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VLIW

noun

VLIW is a noun meaning “Initialism of very long instruction word: an explicitly created set of processor instructions to be executed simultaneously” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-L-I-W, and it appears about once in every 65 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of VLIW is VLIWs.

What does VLIW mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Initialism of very long instruction word: an explicitly created set of processor instructions to be executed simultaneously.

    This machine has a VLIW architecture.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of VLIW

  • VLIWs plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is VLIW?

VLIW appears about once in every 65 million words in written English, the 252,559th 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).