Word #464 00111001111

delay — BIP39 word #464

"delay" is word #464 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between degree and deliver. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 00111001111, decimal index 463.

/dɪˈleɪ/ · noun: a period of time by which something is late or postponed

Russian: задержка

Binary Representation

Seven 1-bits and four 0-bits; 330 of the 2048 indexes have exactly seven 1-bits.

One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):

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Position

#464 of 2048

Hex Index

0x1CF

4-Letter Prefix

dela

About "delay" in BIP39

"delay" has 5 letters, but the first four, "dela", already identify it, because "del" also begins deliver.
"dela" is unique only within the English list: it also begins delator in the Portuguese list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
"delay" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #15 (words 6 and 23 of 24). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words.

Official test vector #15

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