Word #573 01000111100

elegant — BIP39 word #573

"elegant" is word #573 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between electric and element. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 01000111100, decimal index 572.

/ˈɛlɪgənt/ · adjective: graceful and stylish in appearance or manner

Russian: элегантный

Binary Representation

Five 1-bits and six 0-bits; 462 of the 2048 indexes have exactly five 1-bits.

One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):

Position

#573 of 2048

Hex Index

0x23C

4-Letter Prefix

eleg

About "elegant" in BIP39

  • "elegant" has 7 letters, but the first four, "eleg", already identify it, because "ele" also begins electric, element, elephant and elevator.
  • "eleg" is unique only within the English list: it also begins elegir in the Spanish list, elegante in the Italian list and eleger in the Portuguese list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
  • "elegant" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #23 (word 12 of 18). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words.
Official test vector #23

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Word #573 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech katedra
French dissiper
Italian erario
Japanese けらい
Korean 반장
Portuguese degelo
Spanish dueño

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Read aloud, "elegant" /ˈɛlɪgənt/ is one sound away from these 2 words:

Words sharing the first three letters "ele":

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