call — BIP39 word #260
"call" is word #260 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between cake and calm.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
00100000011,
decimal index 259.
/kɔːl/ · verb: to shout to someone, or to telephone them
Russian: звонок
Binary Representation
Three 1-bits and eight 0-bits; 165 of the 2048 indexes have exactly three 1-bits.
One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):
Position
#260 of 2048
Hex Index
0x103
4-Letter Prefix
call
About "call" in BIP39
- It takes all four letters to identify "call": "cal" also begins calm.
- "call" is unique only within the English list: it also begins calle in the Spanish list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
- "call" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #18 (word 5 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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Word #260 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
5 BIP39 words differ from "call" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "call" /kɔːl/ is one sound away from these 8 words:
Words sharing the first three letters "cal":