Word #660 01010010011
fame — BIP39 word #660
"fame" is word #660 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between false and family.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
01010010011,
decimal index 659.
/feɪm/ · noun: the state of being known by many people
Russian: слава
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
#660 of 2048
Hex Index
0x293
4-Letter Prefix
fame
About "fame" in BIP39
- It takes all four letters to identify "fame": "fam" also begins family and famous.
- "fame" is unique only within the English list: it also begins fameux in the French list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
Word #660 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
7 BIP39 words differ from "fame" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "fame" /feɪm/ is one sound away from these 5 words: