Word #303 00100101110
chair — BIP39 word #303
"chair" is word #303 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between certain and chalk.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
00100101110,
decimal index 302.
/ʧeə/ · noun: a seat for one person with a back and usually four legs
Russian: стул
Binary Representation
Five 1-bits and six 0-bits; 462 of the 2048 indexes have exactly five 1-bits.
One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):
Position
#303 of 2048
Hex Index
0x12E
4-Letter Prefix
chai
About "chair" in BIP39
- "chair" has 5 letters, but the first four, "chai", already identify it, because "cha" also begins 8 other words, among them chalk, champion, change and chaos.
- "chai" is unique only within the English list: it also begins chaise in the French list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
Word #303 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
One BIP39 word differs from "chair" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "chair" /ʧeə/ is one sound away from these 8 words: