Word #275 00100010010

car — BIP39 word #275

"car" is word #275 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between captain and carbon. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 00100010010, decimal index 274.

/kɑː/ · noun: a road vehicle with four wheels and an engine for a few passengers

Russian: автомобиль

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

#275 of 2048

Hex Index

0x112

4-Letter Prefix

car

About "car" in BIP39

  • All three letters of "car" also begin longer words: carbon, card, cargo, carpet, carry and cart. So "car" cannot be shortened, and a backup that keeps the first four letters of each word stores it as "car" but carbon as "carb".

Word #275 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech dosud
French boxeur
Italian bulbo
Japanese おこる
Korean 긴장
Portuguese bendito
Spanish breve

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

Read aloud, "car" /kɑː/ is one sound away from these 3 words:

Words sharing the first three letters "car":

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