Word #306 00100110001
change — BIP39 word #306
"change" is word #306 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between champion and chaos.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
00100110001,
decimal index 305.
/ʧeɪnʤ/ · verb: to make or become different
Russian: изменение
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
#306 of 2048
Hex Index
0x131
4-Letter Prefix
chan
About "change" in BIP39
- "change" has 6 letters, but the first four, "chan", already identify it, because "cha" also begins 8 other words, among them chair, chalk, champion and chaos.
- "chan" is unique only within the English list: it also begins chance in the French list and chancla in the Spanish list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
Word #306 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
One BIP39 word differs from "change" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "change" /ʧeɪnʤ/ is one sound away from this word: