Word #214 00011010101

boy — BIP39 word #214

"boy" is word #214 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between box and bracket. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 00011010101, decimal index 213.

/bɔɪ/ · noun: a male child or young man

Russian: мальчик

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

#214 of 2048

Hex Index

0x0D5

4-Letter Prefix

boy

About "boy" in BIP39

  • It takes all three letters to identify "boy": "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 #214 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech datel
French bateau
Italian bavosa
Japanese えいせい
Korean 귀국
Portuguese auditor
Spanish bahía

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

4 BIP39 words differ from "boy" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:

Read aloud, "boy" /bɔɪ/ is one sound away from these 2 words:

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