Word #439 00110110110
cycle — BIP39 word #439
"cycle" is word #439 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between cute and dad.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
00110110110,
decimal index 438.
/ˈsaɪkl/ · noun: a series of events that repeat in the same order
Russian: цикл
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
#439 of 2048
Hex Index
0x1B6
4-Letter Prefix
cycl
About "cycle" in BIP39
- Two letters are enough: no other BIP39 word begins with "cy", which makes "cycle" one of only 34 words that can be told apart this early.
- The same spelling is in the French BIP39 wordlist, but as word #494 (index 493), not #439. A wallet set to French reads "cycle" as 00111101101 instead of 00110110110, and decodes index 438 as "confier".
Word #439 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
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Read aloud, "cycle" /ˈsaɪkl/ is one sound away from this word: