Word #498 00111110001
dilemma — BIP39 word #498
"dilemma" is word #498 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between dignity and dinner.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
00111110001,
decimal index 497.
/dɪˈlɛmə/ · noun: a situation requiring a difficult choice between two options
Russian: дилемма
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
#498 of 2048
Hex Index
0x1F1
4-Letter Prefix
dile
About "dilemma" in BIP39
- "dilemma" has 7 letters, but the first three, "dil", already identify it, because "di" also begins 26 other words, among them diagram, dial, diamond and diary. Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
- "dile" is unique only within the English list: it also begins dilema in the Spanish list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
- "dilemma" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #15 (word 18 of 24). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words.
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