cause — BIP39 word #293
"cause" is word #293 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between caught and caution.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
00100100100,
decimal index 292.
/kɔːz/ · noun: the reason something happens, or an aim people support
Russian: причина
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
#293 of 2048
Hex Index
0x124
4-Letter Prefix
caus
About "cause" in BIP39
- "cause" has 5 letters, but the first four, "caus", already identify it, because "cau" also begins caught and caution.
- "caus" is unique only within the English list: it also begins causer in the French list, causa in the Spanish list and causador in the Portuguese list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
- "cause" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #15 (word 5 of 24). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words.
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Word #293 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
2 BIP39 words differ from "cause" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "cause" /kɔːz/ is one sound away from these 5 words: