Word #10 00000001001
abuse — BIP39 word #10
"abuse" is word #10 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between absurd and access.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
00000001001,
decimal index 9.
/əˈbjuːs/ · noun: cruel or violent treatment, or the wrong use of something
Russian: злоупотребление
Binary Representation
Two 1-bits and nine 0-bits; 55 of the 2048 indexes have exactly two 1-bits.
One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):
Position
#10 of 2048
Hex Index
0x009
4-Letter Prefix
abus
About "abuse" in BIP39
- "abuse" has 5 letters, but the first three, "abu", already identify it, because "ab" also begins 9 other words, among them abandon, ability, able and about. Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
- "abus" is unique only within the English list: it also begins abusif in the French list and abuso in the Spanish list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.