Word #210 00011010001

boss — BIP39 word #210

"boss" is word #210 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between borrow and bottom. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 00011010001, decimal index 209.

/bɒs/ · noun: a person in charge of workers or an organization

Russian: босс

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

#210 of 2048

Hex Index

0x0D1

4-Letter Prefix

boss

About "boss" in BIP39

  • "boss" has 4 letters, but the first three, "bos", already identify it, because "bo" also begins 16 other words, among them board, boat, body and boil. Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.

Word #210 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech cvrkot
French barrage
Italian batosta
Japanese えいえん
Korean 궁극적
Portuguese atrevido
Spanish azul

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

One BIP39 word differs from "boss" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:

Read aloud, "boss" /bɒs/ is one sound away from these 4 words:

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