Word #310 00100110101
chase — BIP39 word #310
"chase" is word #310 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between charge and chat.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
00100110101,
decimal index 309.
/ʧeɪs/ · verb: to run after someone or something to catch them
Russian: погоня
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
#310 of 2048
Hex Index
0x135
4-Letter Prefix
chas
About "chase" in BIP39
- "chase" has 5 letters, but the first four, "chas", already identify it, because "cha" also begins 8 other words, among them chair, chalk, champion and change.
- "chas" is unique only within the English list: it also begins chasseur in the French list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
Word #310 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
One BIP39 word differs from "chase" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "chase" /ʧeɪs/ is one sound away from these 4 words: