balcony
/ˈbælkəni/
Binary Representation
11-bit index: 00010001110 (decimal 142)
Position
#143 of 2048
Hex Index
0x08E
4-Letter Prefix
balc
About "balcony" in BIP39
"balcony" is the #143 word
in the official BIP39 English mnemonic wordlist. It is encoded as the 11-bit binary value
00010001110
(decimal index 142), placing it at the 7% mark of the full 2048-word list.
The 4-letter prefix "balc" uniquely identifies this word among all 2048 entries. With 7 characters, "balcony" is among the longer entries in the list, which reduces the chance of confusion with other words during manual seed phrase entry.
Positioned in the first quarter of the wordlist (index 142), "balcony" starts with "B" — a letter group containing 117 words total. It is word #7 within that group. Words early in the list have lower binary values with more leading zeros, which can be relevant when analyzing raw entropy data.
In a 12-word seed phrase, each word encodes 11 bits of entropy. The probability of "balcony" appearing in any specific position of a randomly generated phrase is 1 in 2048 (≈ 0.049%). A complete 24-word phrase encodes 256 bits of entropy, providing security equivalent to a key space of approximately 1.16 × 10⁷⁷ — far beyond the reach of brute-force attacks.
Word #143 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Every official BIP39 wordlist has exactly 2048 entries, so index 142 encodes the same 11-bit value
(00010001110) in every language.
A wallet configured for one of these languages would use this word instead of "balcony":