curtain — BIP39 word #434
"curtain" is word #434 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between current and curve.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
00110110001,
decimal index 433.
/ˈkɜːtn/ · noun: a piece of cloth hung to cover a window or stage
Russian: занавес
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
#434 of 2048
Hex Index
0x1B1
4-Letter Prefix
curt
About "curtain" in BIP39
- "curtain" has 7 letters, but the first four, "curt", already identify it, because "cur" also begins curious, current and curve.
- "curt" is unique only within the English list: it also begins curto in the Portuguese list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
- "curtain" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #13 (word 5 of 12). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words.
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Word #434 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
One BIP39 word differs from "curtain" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "curtain" /ˈkɜːtn/ is one sound away from this word: