Word #426 00110101001
cry — BIP39 word #426
"cry" is word #426 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between crush and crystal.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
00110101001,
decimal index 425.
/kraɪ/ · verb: to shed tears from sadness or pain, or to shout loudly
Russian: плакать
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):
Position
#426 of 2048
Hex Index
0x1A9
4-Letter Prefix
cry
About "cry" in BIP39
- All three letters of "cry" also begin longer words: crystal. So "cry" cannot be shortened, and a backup that keeps the first four letters of each word stores it as "cry" but crystal as "crys".
Word #426 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
2 BIP39 words differ from "cry" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "cry" /kraɪ/ is one sound away from these 2 words:
Words sharing the first three letters "cry":