Word #633 01001111000
excuse — BIP39 word #633
"excuse" is word #633 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between exclude and execute.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
01001111000,
decimal index 632.
/ɪksˈkjuːs/ · noun: a reason given to explain or justify a fault or offense
Russian: оправдание
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
#633 of 2048
Hex Index
0x278
4-Letter Prefix
excu
About "excuse" in BIP39
- "excuse" has 6 letters, but the first four, "excu", already identify it, because "exc" also begins excess, exchange, excite and exclude.
- The same spelling is in the French BIP39 wordlist, but as word #764 (index 763), not #633. A wallet set to French reads "excuse" as 01011111011 instead of 01001111000, and decodes index 632 as "effrayer".
- "excu" is unique only within the English list: it also begins excusa in the Spanish list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.