Word #203 00011001010
bone — BIP39 word #203
"bone" is word #203 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between bomb and bonus.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
00011001010,
decimal index 202.
/bəʊn/ · noun: one of the hard parts forming the skeleton of an animal
Russian: кость
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
#203 of 2048
Hex Index
0x0CA
4-Letter Prefix
bone
About "bone" in BIP39
- It takes all four letters to identify "bone": "bon" also begins bonus.
- "bone" is unique only within the English list: it also begins boneco in the Portuguese list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
Word #203 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
3 BIP39 words differ from "bone" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "bone" /bəʊn/ is one sound away from these 5 words:
Words sharing the first three letters "bon":