communicating, from a host device, a read command for a codeword stored at a memory device;

receiving, at the host device based at least in part on communicating the read command, the codeword and an error detection bit that indicates whether the memory device detected a first type of error in the codeword;

generating, by the host device based at least in part on a first set of parity bits received from the memory device and on a second set of parity bits generated by the host device, syndrome bits for the received codeword that indicate whether the codeword has a second type of error; and

determining, by the host device, an error status of the codeword based at least in part on the error detection bit received from the memory device and the syndrome bits generated by the host device.