Word #319 00100111110
chief — BIP39 word #319
"chief" is word #319 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between chicken and child.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
00100111110,
decimal index 318.
/ʧiːf/ · noun: the leader or head of a group or organization
Russian: начальник
Binary Representation
Six 1-bits and five 0-bits; 462 of the 2048 indexes have exactly six 1-bits.
One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):
Position
#319 of 2048
Hex Index
0x13E
4-Letter Prefix
chie
About "chief" in BIP39
- "chief" has 5 letters, but the first four, "chie", already identify it, because "chi" also begins chicken, child and chimney.
- "chie" is unique only within the English list: it also begins chien in the French list and chiedere in the Italian list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
Word #319 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
One BIP39 word differs from "chief" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "chief" /ʧiːf/ is one sound away from these 4 words: