Word #222 00011011101

brick — BIP39 word #222

"brick" is word #222 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between breeze and bridge. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 00011011101, decimal index 221.

/brɪk/ · noun: a block of baked clay used for building walls

Russian: кирпич

Binary Representation

Six 1-bits and five 0-bits; 462 of the 2048 indexes have exactly six 1-bits.

One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):

Position

#222 of 2048

Hex Index

0x0DD

4-Letter Prefix

bric

About "brick" in BIP39

  • "brick" has 5 letters, but the first four, "bric", already identify it, because "bri" also begins bridge, brief, bright, bring and brisk.
  • "bric" is unique only within the English list: it also begins bricoler in the French list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

Word #222 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech dekl
French berceau
Italian benzina
Japanese えくせる
Korean 그러나
Portuguese avante
Spanish banda

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

Read aloud, "brick" /brɪk/ is one sound away from these 2 words:

Words sharing the first three letters "bri":

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