Word #199 00011000110
boat — BIP39 word #199
"boat" is word #199 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between board and body.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
00011000110,
decimal index 198.
/bəʊt/ · noun: a small vessel for traveling on water
Russian: лодка
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
#199 of 2048
Hex Index
0x0C6
4-Letter Prefix
boat
About "boat" in BIP39
- It takes all four letters to identify "boat": "boa" also begins board.
- "boat" is unique only within the English list: it also begins boato in the Portuguese list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
Word #199 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
One BIP39 word differs from "boat" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "boat" /bəʊt/ is one sound away from these 3 words:
Words sharing the first three letters "boa":