Word #309 00100110100
charge — BIP39 word #309
"charge" is word #309 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between chapter and chase.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
00100110100,
decimal index 308.
/ʧɑːʤ/ · verb: to ask a price for something, or to put electricity into a battery
Russian: заряд
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
#309 of 2048
Hex Index
0x134
4-Letter Prefix
char
About "charge" in BIP39
- "charge" has 6 letters, but the first four, "char", already identify it, because "cha" also begins 8 other words, among them chair, chalk, champion and change.
- "char" is unique only within the English list: it also begins charbon in the French list, charla in the Spanish list, charme in the Portuguese list and charita in the Czech list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
Word #309 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
One BIP39 word differs from "charge" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "charge" /ʧɑːʤ/ is one sound away from this word: