Word #477 00111011100
describe — BIP39 word #477
"describe" is word #477 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between derive and desert.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
00111011100,
decimal index 476.
/dɪsˈkraɪb/ · verb: to say or write what someone or something is like
Russian: описать
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
#477 of 2048
Hex Index
0x1DC
4-Letter Prefix
desc
About "describe" in BIP39
- "describe" has 8 letters, but the first four, "desc", already identify it, because "des" also begins desert, design, desk, despair and destroy.
- "desc" is unique only within the English list: it also begins descente in the French list, descritto in the Italian list and descanso in the Portuguese list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.