Word #2 00000000001
ability — BIP39 word #2
"ability" is word #2 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between abandon and able.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
00000000001,
decimal index 1.
/əˈbɪlɪti/ · noun: the power or skill to do something
Russian: способность
Binary Representation
A single 1-bit: 1 is a power of two, like the indexes of able, above, absurd, acoustic, advice, amount, avoid, cactus, divorce and length.
One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):
Position
#2 of 2048
Hex Index
0x001
4-Letter Prefix
abil
About "ability" in BIP39
- "ability" has 7 letters, but the first three, "abi", already identify it, because "ab" also begins 9 other words, among them abandon, able, about and above. Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
- "ability" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #22 (word 8 of 12). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words.
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