Word #144 00010001111
ball — BIP39 word #144
"ball" is word #144 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between balcony and bamboo.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
00010001111,
decimal index 143.
/bɔːl/ · noun: a round object that is thrown, kicked or hit in games
Russian: мяч
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
#144 of 2048
Hex Index
0x08F
4-Letter Prefix
ball
About "ball" in BIP39
- It takes all four letters to identify "ball": "bal" also begins balance and balcony.
- "ball" is unique only within the English list: it also begins ballata in the Italian list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
Word #144 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
4 BIP39 words differ from "ball" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "ball" /bɔːl/ is one sound away from these 2 words: