Word #618 01001101001
essay — BIP39 word #618
"essay" is word #618 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between escape and essence.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
01001101001,
decimal index 617.
/ˈɛseɪ/ · noun: a short piece of writing on a particular subject
Russian: эссе
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
#618 of 2048
Hex Index
0x269
4-Letter Prefix
essa
About "essay" in BIP39
- "essay" has 5 letters, but the first four, "essa", already identify it, because "ess" also begins essence.
- "essa" is unique only within the English list: it also begins essayer in the French list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.