Word #180 00010110011
biology — BIP39 word #180
"biology" is word #180 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between bind and bird.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
00010110011,
decimal index 179.
/baɪˈɒləʤi/ · noun: the scientific study of living things
Russian: биология
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
#180 of 2048
Hex Index
0x0B3
4-Letter Prefix
biol
About "biology" in BIP39
- "biology" has 7 letters, but the first three, "bio", already identify it, because "bi" also begins 7 other words, among them bicycle, bid, bike and bind. Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
- "biol" is unique only within the English list: it also begins biologie in the French list, biologo in the Italian list, biologia in the Portuguese list and biolog in the Czech list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.