Word #71 00001000110
angle — BIP39 word #71
"angle" is word #71 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between anger and angry.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
00001000110,
decimal index 70.
/ˈæŋgl/ · noun: the space between two lines that meet, measured in degrees
Russian: угол
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
#71 of 2048
Hex Index
0x046
4-Letter Prefix
angl
About "angle" in BIP39
- "angle" has 5 letters, but the first four, "angl", already identify it, because "ang" also begins anger and angry.
- The same spelling is in the French BIP39 wordlist, but as word #108 (index 107), not #71. A wallet set to French reads "angle" as 00001101011 instead of 00001000110, and decodes index 70 as "aisance".
Word #71 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
One BIP39 word differs from "angle" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "angle" /ˈæŋgl/ is one sound away from this word: