In computer science, words in the most common current usage refer to a 16 bit chunk of data. The best $/gb value according to one of the first results on google is $23.75 CAD per TB (for a 4tb hdd). Since 1TB is 1,000,000,000,000 bytes, then it can fit 500,000,000,000 words of data (not accounting for things like block size). Dividing the price/tb by the number of words that can fit yields a cost of $0.0000000000475 per word. At this scale it’s so unbelivable smal that it’s easyer on the brain to invert the unit, in other words, see how many words we can purchase with 1 dollarydoo. Truncated, this gives us 21,052,631,578 words, or over 21 billion words with a single canadian dollar.

So no, i would disagree with the statement that words are expensive