Word #265 00100001000
canal — BIP39 word #265
"canal" is word #265 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between can and cancel.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
00100001000,
decimal index 264.
/kəˈnæl/ · noun: an artificial waterway built for boats or for watering land
Russian: канал
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
#265 of 2048
Hex Index
0x108
4-Letter Prefix
cana
About "canal" in BIP39
- "canal" has 5 letters, but the first four, "cana", already identify it, because "can" also begins 7 other words, among them can, cancel, candy and cannon.
- Its first letters also spell another BIP39 word, can. Write "canal" out in full: cut short, it turns into a different valid word.
- The same spelling is in the French BIP39 wordlist, but as word #324 (index 323), not #265. A wallet set to French reads "canal" as 00101000011 instead of 00100001000, and decodes index 264 as "borne".
- "cana" is unique only within the English list: it also begins canapa in the Italian list and canavial in the Portuguese list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.