Word #299 00100101010

census — BIP39 word #299

"census" is word #299 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between cement and century. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 00100101010, decimal index 298.

/ˈsɛnsəs/ · noun: an official count of a country's population

Russian: перепись

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):

pipe grab aim crystal coil candy chef cattle chair celery century

Position

#299 of 2048

Hex Index

0x12A

4-Letter Prefix

cens

About "census" in BIP39

"census" has 6 letters, but the first four, "cens", already identify it, because "cen" also begins century.
"cens" is unique only within the English list: it also begins censurer in the French list and censo in the Portuguese list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
"census" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #21 (word 15 of 24). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words.