Word #408 00110010111
cream — BIP39 word #408
"cream" is word #408 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between crazy and credit.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
00110010111,
decimal index 407.
/kriːm/ · noun: the thick fatty part of milk that rises to the top
Russian: крем
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
#408 of 2048
Hex Index
0x197
4-Letter Prefix
crea
About "cream" in BIP39
- "cream" has 5 letters, but the first four, "crea", already identify it, because "cre" also begins credit, creek and crew.
- "crea" is unique only within the English list: it also begins crear in the Spanish list and creato in the Italian list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
Word #408 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
2 BIP39 words differ from "cream" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "cream" /kriːm/ is one sound away from these 2 words: