Word #176 00010101111
bicycle — BIP39 word #176
"bicycle" is word #176 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between beyond and bid.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
00010101111,
decimal index 175.
/ˈbaɪsɪkl/ · noun: a vehicle with two wheels that you ride by pedaling
Russian: велосипед
Binary Representation
Six 1-bits and five 0-bits; 462 of the 2048 indexes have exactly six 1-bits.
One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):
Position
#176 of 2048
Hex Index
0x0AF
4-Letter Prefix
bicy
About "bicycle" in BIP39
- "bicycle" has 7 letters, but the first three, "bic", already identify it, because "bi" also begins 7 other words, among them bid, bike, bind and biology. Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
- The same spelling is in the French BIP39 wordlist, but as word #231 (index 230), not #176. A wallet set to French reads "bicycle" as 00011100110 instead of 00010101111, and decodes index 175 as "avaler".
- "bicy" is unique only within the English list: it also begins bicykl in the Czech list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.