Word #39 00000100110
age — BIP39 word #39
"age" is word #39 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between again and agent.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
00000100110,
decimal index 38.
/eɪʤ/ · noun: the length of time a person or thing has existed
Russian: возраст
Binary Representation
Three 1-bits and eight 0-bits; 165 of the 2048 indexes have exactly three 1-bits.
One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):
Position
#39 of 2048
Hex Index
0x026
4-Letter Prefix
age
About "age" in BIP39
- All three letters of "age" also begin longer words: agent. So "age" cannot be shortened, and a backup that keeps the first four letters of each word stores it as "age" but agent as "agen".
Word #39 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
3 BIP39 words differ from "age" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "age" /eɪʤ/ is one sound away from these 5 words:
Words sharing the first three letters "age":