drive — BIP39 word #539
"drive" is word #539 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between drip and drop.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
01000011010,
decimal index 538.
/draɪv/ · verb: to operate and control a vehicle such as a car
Russian: ехать
Binary Representation
Four 1-bits and seven 0-bits; 330 of the 2048 indexes have exactly four 1-bits.
One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):
Position
#539 of 2048
Hex Index
0x21A
4-Letter Prefix
driv
About "drive" in BIP39
- "drive" has 5 letters, but the first four, "driv", already identify it, because "dri" also begins drift, drill, drink and drip.
- "drive" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #18 (word 22 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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Word #539 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
One BIP39 word differs from "drive" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "drive" /draɪv/ is one sound away from these 3 words: