Word #453 00111000100

decade — BIP39 word #453

"decade" is word #453 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between debris and december. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 00111000100, decimal index 452.

/ˈdɛkeɪd/ · noun: a period of ten years

Russian: десятилетие

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

#453 of 2048

Hex Index

0x1C4

4-Letter Prefix

deca

About "decade" in BIP39

  • "decade" has 6 letters, but the first four, "deca", already identify it, because "dec" also begins december, decide, decline, decorate and decrease.
  • "deca" is unique only within the English list: it also begins decalque in the Portuguese list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

Word #453 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech houska
French cortège
Italian dedicato
Japanese きろく
Korean 만화
Portuguese cigana
Spanish corbata

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

One BIP39 word differs from "decade" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:

Words sharing the first three letters "dec":

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