Word #272 00100001111
capable — BIP39 word #272
"capable" is word #272 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between canyon and capital.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
00100001111,
decimal index 271.
/ˈkeɪpəbl/ · adjective: having the ability or skill needed to do something
Russian: способный
Binary Representation
Five 1-bits and six 0-bits; 462 of the 2048 indexes have exactly five 1-bits.
One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):
Position
#272 of 2048
Hex Index
0x10F
4-Letter Prefix
capa
About "capable" in BIP39
- "capable" has 7 letters, but the first four, "capa", already identify it, because "cap" also begins capital and captain.
- The same spelling is in the French BIP39 wordlist, but as word #329 (index 328), not #272. A wallet set to French reads "capable" as 00101001000 instead of 00100001111, and decodes index 271 as "bourse".
- "capa" is unique only within the English list: it also begins capaz in the Spanish list, capace in the Italian list, capacho in the Portuguese list and capart in the Czech list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.