Word #264 00100000111

can — BIP39 word #264

"can" is word #264 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between camp and canal. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 00100000111, decimal index 263.

/kæn/ · verb: to be able to or be allowed to do something

Russian: мочь; банка

Binary Representation

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

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

Position

#264 of 2048

Hex Index

0x107

4-Letter Prefix

can

About "can" in BIP39

  • All three letters of "can" also begin longer words: canal, cancel, candy, cannon, canoe, canvas and canyon. So "can" cannot be shortened, and a backup that keeps the first four letters of each word stores it as "can" but canal as "cana".

Word #264 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech dopis
French bordure
Italian brindare
Japanese おがむ
Korean 기억
Portuguese batom
Spanish bonsái

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

6 BIP39 words differ from "can" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:

Read aloud, "can" /kæn/ is one sound away from these 5 words:

Words sharing the first three letters "can":

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