Word #281 00100011000
cart — BIP39 word #281
"cart" is word #281 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between carry and case.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
00100011000,
decimal index 280.
/kɑːt/ · noun: a vehicle with wheels pulled by an animal or pushed by hand
Russian: тележка
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
#281 of 2048
Hex Index
0x118
4-Letter Prefix
cart
About "cart" in BIP39
- It takes all four letters to identify "cart": "car" also begins car, carbon, card, cargo, carpet and carry.
- Its first letters also spell another BIP39 word, car. Write "cart" out in full: cut short, it turns into a different valid word.
- "cart" is unique only within the English list: it also begins carton in the French list, carta in the Spanish list, cartolina in the Italian list and cartaz in the Portuguese list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
Word #281 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
4 BIP39 words differ from "cart" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "cart" /kɑːt/ is one sound away from these 5 words: