Word #250 00011111001

busy — BIP39 word #250

"busy" is word #250 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between business and butter. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 00011111001, decimal index 249.

/ˈbɪzi/ · adjective: having a lot to do, or full of activity

Russian: занятой

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

#250 of 2048

Hex Index

0x0F9

4-Letter Prefix

busy

About "busy" in BIP39

  • It takes all four letters to identify "busy": "bus" also begins bus and business.
  • Its first letters also spell another BIP39 word, bus. Write "busy" out in full: cut short, it turns into a different valid word.

Word #250 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech dojnice
French blinder
Italian bosco
Japanese おうじ
Korean 기간
Portuguese bandeira
Spanish bobina

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

bus

Read aloud, "busy" /ˈbɪzi/ is one sound away from this word:

Words sharing the first three letters "bus":

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