Word #615 01001100110

error — BIP39 word #615

"error" is word #615 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between erosion and erupt. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 01001100110, decimal index 614.

/ˈɛrə/ · noun: a mistake, or the state of being wrong

Russian: ошибка

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

#615 of 2048

Hex Index

0x266

4-Letter Prefix

erro

About "error" in BIP39

  • "error" has 5 letters, but the first three, "err", already identify it, because "er" also begins era, erase, erode, erosion and erupt. Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
  • "error" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #22 (word 4 of 12). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words.
Official test vector #22

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Word #615 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech kobyla
French éclore
Italian evoluto
Japanese こうつう
Korean 백성
Portuguese diagrama
Spanish enero

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Read aloud, "error" /ˈɛrə/ is one sound away from this word:

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