Word #62 00000111101
amateur — BIP39 word #62
"amateur" is word #62 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between always and amazing.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
00000111101,
decimal index 61.
/ˈæmətə/ · noun: a person who does an activity for pleasure, not payment
Russian: любитель
Binary Representation
Five 1-bits and six 0-bits; 462 of the 2048 indexes have exactly five 1-bits.
One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):
Position
#62 of 2048
Hex Index
0x03D
4-Letter Prefix
amat
About "amateur" in BIP39
- "amateur" has 7 letters, but the first four, "amat", already identify it, because "ama" also begins amazing.
- The same spelling is in the French BIP39 wordlist, but as word #89 (index 88), not #62. A wallet set to French reads "amateur" as 00001011000 instead of 00000111101, and decodes index 61 as "agile".
Word #62 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
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