Word

The programming term word represents a two 8-bit bytes (16 bits) with 65536 distinct identifiers. In all main-series Pokémon games after Generation II Pokémon species identifiers are stored in words, hence there are 65150, 65043 and 64887 invalid identifiers representing 'glitch Pokémon' in Generation III, Generation IV and Generation V main series Pokémon games respectively.

See also

1. Bit
2. Byte
3. dword