Word #9 00000001000
absurd — BIP39 word #9
"absurd" is word #9 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between abstract and abuse.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
00000001000,
decimal index 8.
/əbˈsɜːd/ · adjective: wildly unreasonable, illogical or ridiculous
Russian: абсурдный
Binary Representation
A single 1-bit: 8 is a power of two, like the indexes of ability, able, above, acoustic, advice, amount, avoid, cactus, divorce and length.
One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):
Position
#9 of 2048
Hex Index
0x008
4-Letter Prefix
absu
About "absurd" in BIP39
- "absurd" has 6 letters, but the first four, "absu", already identify it, because "abs" also begins absent, absorb and abstract.
- "absu" is unique only within the English list: it also begins absurde in the French list and absurdo in the Portuguese list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
- "absurd" appears in three of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vectors #3 (word 4 of 12), #7 (words 4 and 12 of 18) and #11 (words 4, 12 and 20 of 24). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words.
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