Word #209 00011010000
borrow — BIP39 word #209
"borrow" is word #209 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between boring and boss.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
00011010000,
decimal index 208.
/ˈbɒrəʊ/ · verb: to take something with the intention of giving it back
Russian: одолжить
Binary Representation
Three 1-bits and eight 0-bits; 165 of the 2048 indexes have exactly three 1-bits.
One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):
Position
#209 of 2048
Hex Index
0x0D0
4-Letter Prefix
borr
About "borrow" in BIP39
- "borrow" has 6 letters, but the first four, "borr", already identify it, because "bor" also begins border and boring.
- "borr" is unique only within the English list: it also begins borrar in the Spanish list and borracha in the Portuguese list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
- "borrow" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #16 (word 12 of 12). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words. As the last word of vector #16, its final 4 bits, 0000, are the checksum of the 12-word phrase.
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