eight — BIP39 word #568
"eight" is word #568 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between egg and either.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
01000110111,
decimal index 567.
/eɪt/ · number: the number equal to seven plus one
Russian: восемь
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
#568 of 2048
Hex Index
0x237
4-Letter Prefix
eigh
About "eight" in BIP39
- "eight" has 5 letters, but the first three, "eig", already identify it, because "ei" also begins either. Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
- "eight" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #13 (word 11 of 12). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words.
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Word #568 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
5 BIP39 words differ from "eight" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "eight" /eɪt/ is one sound away from these 6 words: