Word #138 00010001001
bachelor — BIP39 word #138
"bachelor" is word #138 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between baby and bacon.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
00010001001,
decimal index 137.
/ˈbæʧᵊlə/ · noun: a man who has never been married
Russian: бакалавр
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
#138 of 2048
Hex Index
0x089
4-Letter Prefix
bach
About "bachelor" in BIP39
- "bachelor" has 8 letters, but the first four, "bach", already identify it, because "bac" also begins bacon.
- "bach" is unique only within the English list: it also begins bache in the Spanish list, bacharel in the Portuguese list and bachor in the Czech list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
Word #138 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
Words sharing the first three letters "bac":