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Funny, in Finnish a byte is called a syllable. Which would better apply to a nibble I guess.
A word is typically 4 bytes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_(computer_architecture)
Oh. Shit, first I didn't know what a nibble is, now I didn't know what a word is ... I'll just show myself out and make sure I never try to write any assembler code.
Well technically
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllable_(computing)