Word #257 00100000000

cactus — BIP39 word #257

"cactus" is word #257 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between cable and cage. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 00100000000, decimal index 256.

/ˈkæktəs/ · noun: a desert plant with thick fleshy stems and sharp spines

Russian: кактус

Binary Representation

A single 1-bit: 256 is a power of two, like the indexes of ability, able, above, absurd, acoustic, advice, amount, avoid, divorce and length.

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

Position

#257 of 2048

Hex Index

0x100

4-Letter Prefix

cact

About "cactus" in BIP39

  • "cactus" has 6 letters, but the first three, "cac", already identify it, because "ca" also begins 41 other words, among them cabbage, cabin, cable and cage. Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.

Word #257 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech dolina
French boiser
Italian branca
Japanese おおい
Korean 기름
Portuguese barraca
Spanish bola

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