Word #258 00100000001
cage — BIP39 word #258
"cage" is word #258 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between cactus and cake.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
00100000001,
decimal index 257.
/keɪʤ/ · noun: a structure of bars or wire used to hold animals or birds
Russian: клетка
Binary Representation
Two 1-bits and nine 0-bits; 55 of the 2048 indexes have exactly two 1-bits.
One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):
Position
#258 of 2048
Hex Index
0x101
4-Letter Prefix
cage
About "cage" in BIP39
- "cage" has 4 letters, but the first three, "cag", already identify it, because "ca" also begins 41 other words, among them cabbage, cabin, cable and cactus. Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
- "cage" appears in three of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vectors #3 (words 3 and 11 of 12), #7 (words 3 and 11 of 18) and #11 (words 3, 11 and 19 of 24). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words.
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