Word #49 00000110000
alcohol — BIP39 word #49
"alcohol" is word #49 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between album and alert.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
00000110000,
decimal index 48.
/ˈælkəhɒl/ · noun: drinks such as beer and wine that can make people drunk
Russian: алкоголь
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
#49 of 2048
Hex Index
0x030
4-Letter Prefix
alco
About "alcohol" in BIP39
- "alcohol" has 7 letters, but the first three, "alc", already identify it, because "al" also begins 14 other words, among them alarm, album, alert and alien. Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
- "alco" is unique only within the English list: it also begins alcolico in the Italian list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
- "alcohol" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #18 (word 13 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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