zettabyte
/ˈzɛtəbaɪt/noun
zettabyte is spelled Z-E-T-T-A-B-Y-T-E. The wrong spelling people search most is zetabyte: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Zettabyte is a noun meaning “One sextillion (10²¹, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 exabytes”. The plural of zettabyte is zettabytes.
How many letters and syllables are in zettabyte?
| Letters | 9: Z-E-T-T-A-B-Y-T-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 98 million words; the 317,168th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, zetabyte, about 40 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell zettabyte?
Zettabyte is spelled Z-E-T-T-A-B-Y-T-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for zettabyte in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is zettabyte?
Zettabyte appears about once in every 98 million words in written English, the 317,168th 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 zettabyte?
- /ˈzɛtəbaɪt/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-zettabyte.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of zettabyte
- zettabytes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does zettabyte mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
One sextillion (10²¹, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 exabytes.
- 2
informalA zebibyte.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate zettabyte?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of zettabyte: ZB.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Zettabyte in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense 270 or 1021 bytes:
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 zettabyte come from?
From zetta- + byte.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).