Word #163 00010100010

begin — BIP39 word #163

"begin" is word #163 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between before and behave. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 00010100010, decimal index 162.

/bɪˈgɪn/ · verb: to start doing something or come into existence

Russian: начать

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):

nephew february crowd affair brisk aware bind best below beef behave

Position

#163 of 2048

Hex Index

0x0A2

4-Letter Prefix

begi

About "begin" in BIP39

"begin" has 5 letters, but the first three, "beg", already identify it, because "be" also begins 19 other words, among them beach, bean, beauty and because. Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.