Word #5 00000000100

above — BIP39 word #5

"above" is word #5 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between about and absent. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 00000000100, decimal index 4.

/əˈbʌv/ · preposition: at a higher place or level than something

Russian: выше

Binary Representation

A single 1-bit: 4 is a power of two, like the indexes of ability, able, absurd, acoustic, advice, amount, avoid, cactus, divorce and length.

One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):

letter dog calm awesome ancient afraid action account abandon absorb absent

Position

#5 of 2048

Hex Index

0x004

4-Letter Prefix

abov

About "above" in BIP39

"above" has 5 letters, but the first four, "abov", already identify it, because "abo" also begins about.
"above" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #3 (word 12 of 12). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words. As the last word of vector #3, its final 4 bits, 0100, are the checksum of the 12-word phrase.

Official test vector #3

letter advice cage absurd amount doctor acoustic avoid letter advice cage above