Word #499 00111110010
dinner — BIP39 word #499
"dinner" is word #499 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between dilemma and dinosaur.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
00111110010,
decimal index 498.
/ˈdɪnə/ · noun: the main meal of the day, usually eaten in the evening
Russian: ужин
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
#499 of 2048
Hex Index
0x1F2
4-Letter Prefix
dinn
About "dinner" in BIP39
- "dinner" has 6 letters, but the first four, "dinn", already identify it, because "din" also begins dinosaur.
- "dinn" is unique only within the English list: it also begins dinnanzi in the Italian list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
Word #499 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
2 BIP39 words differ from "dinner" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "dinner" /ˈdɪnə/ is one sound away from these 3 words:
Words sharing the first three letters "din":