Word #44 00000101011
air — BIP39 word #44
"air" is word #44 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between aim and airport.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
00000101011,
decimal index 43.
/eə/ · noun: the invisible mixture of gases that surrounds the earth
Russian: воздух
Binary Representation
Four 1-bits and seven 0-bits; 330 of the 2048 indexes have exactly four 1-bits.
One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):
Position
#44 of 2048
Hex Index
0x02B
4-Letter Prefix
air
About "air" in BIP39
- All three letters of "air" also begin longer words: airport. So "air" cannot be shortened, and a backup that keeps the first four letters of each word stores it as "air" but airport as "airp".
Word #44 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
3 BIP39 words differ from "air" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "air" /eə/ is one sound away from these 8 words:
Words sharing the first three letters "air":