Word #510 00111111101
distance — BIP39 word #510
"distance" is word #510 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between display and divert.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
00111111101,
decimal index 509.
/ˈdɪstəns/ · noun: the amount of space between two places or things
Russian: расстояние
Binary Representation
Eight 1-bits and three 0-bits; 165 of the 2048 indexes have exactly eight 1-bits.
One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):
Position
#510 of 2048
Hex Index
0x1FD
4-Letter Prefix
dist
About "distance" in BIP39
- "distance" has 8 letters, but the first four, "dist", already identify it, because "dis" also begins 7 other words, among them disagree, discover, disease and dish.
- The same spelling is in the French BIP39 wordlist, but as word #574 (index 573), not #510. A wallet set to French reads "distance" as 01000111101 instead of 00111111101, and decodes index 509 as "décider".
- "dist" is unique only within the English list: it also begins distanza in the Italian list and distante in the Portuguese list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.