Word #248 00011110111

bus — BIP39 word #248

"bus" is word #248 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between burst and business. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 00011110111, decimal index 247.

/bʌs/ · noun: a large road vehicle that carries many passengers

Russian: автобус

Binary Representation

Seven 1-bits and four 0-bits; 330 of the 2048 indexes have exactly seven 1-bits.

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

Position

#248 of 2048

Hex Index

0x0F7

4-Letter Prefix

bus

About "bus" in BIP39

  • All three letters of "bus" also begin longer words: business and busy. So "bus" cannot be shortened, and a backup that keeps the first four letters of each word stores it as "bus" but business as "busi".

Word #248 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech dohra
French blanchir
Italian bonifico
Japanese おうえん
Korean 금지
Portuguese balsa
Spanish blusa

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

Read aloud, "bus" /bʌs/ is one sound away from these 3 words:

Words sharing the first three letters "bus":

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