Word #391 00110000110

cotton — BIP39 word #391

"cotton" is word #391 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between cost and couch. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 00110000110, decimal index 390.

/ˈkɒtn/ · noun: a soft white fiber from a plant, used to make cloth

Russian: хлопок

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

#391 of 2048

Hex Index

0x186

4-Letter Prefix

cott

About "cotton" in BIP39

  • "cotton" has 6 letters, but the first three, "cot", already identify it, because "co" also begins 40 other words, among them coach, coast, coconut and code. Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
  • "cott" is unique only within the English list: it also begins cottura in the Italian list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

Word #391 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech harfa
French chrome
Italian consumo
Japanese きくばり
Korean 대전
Portuguese captador
Spanish choza

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Read aloud, "cotton" /ˈkɒtn/ is one sound away from this word:

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