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Since the term "word" is loosely defined there is no guaranteed method of determining the length of a "word" on a given architecture. This being said, typically the word size of a given architecture is the size in bits of the system's general purpose registers, equivalent to the bit-width of the data bus connected.

So given the above the easiest way to determine the word length is to look up the specifications of the processor, but without this information the word length can be determined by loading up your favorite debugger, dumping the registers, and counting the number of bits in the gen. purpose regs.

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