Word #282 00100011001
case — BIP39 word #282
"case" is word #282 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between cart and cash.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
00100011001,
decimal index 281.
/keɪs/ · noun: a particular situation or example, or a container for holding things
Russian: случай
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
#282 of 2048
Hex Index
0x119
4-Letter Prefix
case
About "case" in BIP39
- It takes all four letters to identify "case": "cas" also begins cash, casino, castle and casual.
- "case" is unique only within the English list: it also begins casero in the Spanish list, caserma in the Italian list and casebre in the Portuguese list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
Word #282 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
7 BIP39 words differ from "case" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "case" /keɪs/ is one sound away from these 5 words: