Word #417 00110100000
cross — BIP39 word #417
"cross" is word #417 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between crop and crouch.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
00110100000,
decimal index 416.
/krɒs/ · verb: to go from one side of something to the other
Russian: крест
Binary Representation
Three 1-bits and eight 0-bits; 165 of the 2048 indexes have exactly three 1-bits.
One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):
Position
#417 of 2048
Hex Index
0x1A0
4-Letter Prefix
cros
About "cross" in BIP39
- "cross" has 5 letters, but the first four, "cros", already identify it, because "cro" also begins crop, crouch and crowd.
- "cros" is unique only within the English list: it also begins crostata in the Italian list and crosta in the Portuguese list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
Word #417 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
One BIP39 word differs from "cross" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "cross" /krɒs/ is one sound away from these 2 words: