Word #421 00110100100
cruel — BIP39 word #421
"cruel" is word #421 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between crucial and cruise.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
00110100100,
decimal index 420.
/krʊəl/ · adjective: deliberately causing pain or suffering to others
Russian: жестокий
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
#421 of 2048
Hex Index
0x1A4
4-Letter Prefix
crue
About "cruel" in BIP39
- "cruel" has 5 letters, but the first four, "crue", already identify it, because "cru" also begins crucial, cruise, crumble, crunch and crush.
- The same spelling is in the French BIP39 wordlist, but as word #480 (index 479), not #421. A wallet set to French reads "cruel" as 00111011111 instead of 00110100100, and decodes index 420 as "coder".