Word #227 00011100010

brisk — BIP39 word #227

"brisk" is word #227 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between bring and broccoli. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 00011100010, decimal index 226.

/brɪsk/ · adjective: quick and energetic, or pleasantly cold

Russian: бодрый

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

#227 of 2048

Hex Index

0x0E2

4-Letter Prefix

bris

About "brisk" in BIP39

  • "brisk" has 5 letters, but the first four, "bris", already identify it, because "bri" also begins brick, bridge, brief, bright and bring.
  • "bris" is unique only within the English list: it also begins brisa in the Spanish list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
  • "brisk" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #23 (word 14 of 18). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words.
Official test vector #23

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Word #227 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech deska
French besogne
Italian bici
Japanese えほうまき
Korean 그토록
Portuguese avisar
Spanish barro

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

Words sharing the first three letters "bri":

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