Word #311 00100110110
chat — BIP39 word #311
"chat" is word #311 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between chase and cheap.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
00100110110,
decimal index 310.
/ʧæt/ · verb: to talk in a friendly and informal way
Russian: чат
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
#311 of 2048
Hex Index
0x136
4-Letter Prefix
chat
About "chat" in BIP39
- It takes all four letters to identify "chat": "cha" also begins 8 other words, among them chair, chalk, champion and change.
- "chat" is unique only within the English list: it also begins chaton in the French list, chatice in the Portuguese list and chata in the Czech list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
- "chat" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #22 (word 7 of 12). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words.
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Word #311 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
4 BIP39 words differ from "chat" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "chat" /ʧæt/ is one sound away from this word: