Word #340 00101010011

clerk — BIP39 word #340

"clerk" is word #340 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between clean and clever. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 00101010011, decimal index 339.

/klɑːk/ · noun: an office worker who keeps records or handles accounts

Russian: клерк

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):

price heavy apology denial carbon common chronic clock cliff clay clean

Position

#340 of 2048

Hex Index

0x153

4-Letter Prefix

cler

About "clerk" in BIP39

"clerk" has 5 letters, but the first four, "cler", already identify it, because "cle" also begins clean and clever.
"cler" is unique only within the English list: it also begins clero in the Portuguese list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.