drive
/draɪv/
Binary Representation
11-bit index: 01000011010 (decimal 538)
Position
#539 of 2048
Hex Index
0x21A
4-Letter Prefix
driv
About "drive" in BIP39
"drive" is the #539 word
in the official BIP39 English mnemonic wordlist. It is encoded as the 11-bit binary value
01000011010
(decimal index 538), placing it at the 26% mark of the full 2048-word list.
The 4-letter prefix "driv" uniquely identifies this word among all 2048 entries. At 5 characters, it falls in the typical length range for BIP39 words, balancing readability with distinctiveness during manual wallet recovery.
Located in the middle section of the wordlist (index 538), "drive" belongs to the "D" letter group, which contains 112 words. It is the #100 entry in that group. Mid-range words have a balanced mix of 0s and 1s in their binary representation.
In a 12-word seed phrase, each word encodes 11 bits of entropy. The probability of "drive" appearing in any specific position of a randomly generated phrase is 1 in 2048 (≈ 0.049%). A complete 24-word phrase encodes 256 bits of entropy, providing security equivalent to a key space of approximately 1.16 × 10⁷⁷ — far beyond the reach of brute-force attacks.