Word #143 00010001110

balcony — BIP39 word #143

"balcony" is word #143 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between balance and ball. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 00010001110, decimal index 142.

/ˈbælkəni/ · noun: a platform with a railing on the outside of a building

Russian: балкон

Binary Representation

Four 1-bits and seven 0-bits; 330 of the 2048 indexes have exactly four 1-bits.

One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):

Position

#143 of 2048

Hex Index

0x08E

4-Letter Prefix

balc

About "balcony" in BIP39

  • "balcony" has 7 letters, but the first four, "balc", already identify it, because "bal" also begins balance and ball.
  • "balc" is unique only within the English list: it also begins balcon in the French list, balcón in the Spanish list and balcone in the Italian list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

Word #143 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech celer
French arracher
Italian arsenico
Japanese いんげんまめ
Korean 공장
Portuguese anomalia
Spanish arduo

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