Word #207 00011001110
border — BIP39 word #207
"border" is word #207 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between boost and boring.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
00011001110,
decimal index 206.
/ˈbɔːdə/ · noun: the line dividing two countries or areas, or an edge
Russian: граница
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
#207 of 2048
Hex Index
0x0CE
4-Letter Prefix
bord
About "border" in BIP39
- "border" has 6 letters, but the first four, "bord", already identify it, because "bor" also begins boring and borrow.
- "bord" is unique only within the English list: it also begins bordure in the French list, borde in the Spanish list, bordo in the Italian list and borda in the Portuguese list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
Word #207 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
One BIP39 word differs from "border" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "border" /ˈbɔːdə/ is one sound away from this word: