Word #242 00011110001

bullet — BIP39 word #242

"bullet" is word #242 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between bulk and bundle. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 00011110001, decimal index 241.

/ˈbʊlɪt/ · noun: a small metal object fired from a gun

Russian: пуля

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

#242 of 2048

Hex Index

0x0F1

4-Letter Prefix

bull

About "bullet" in BIP39

  • "bullet" has 6 letters, but the first four, "bull", already identify it, because "bul" also begins bulb and bulk.
  • "bull" is unique only within the English list: it also begins bulletin in the French list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
  • "bullet" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #18 (word 3 of 24). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words.
Official test vector #18

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Word #242 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech dobytek
French bison
Italian bisonte
Japanese えんちょう
Korean 금고
Portuguese baioneta
Spanish bestia

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