Word #707 01011000010

flame — BIP39 word #707

"flame" is word #707 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between flag and flash. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 01011000010, decimal index 706.

/fleɪm/ · noun: a hot glowing mass of burning gas from a fire

Russian: пламя

Binary Representation

Four 1-bits and seven 0-bits; 330 of the 2048 indexes have exactly four 1-bits.

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

Position

#707 of 2048

Hex Index

0x2C2

4-Letter Prefix

flam

About "flame" in BIP39

  • "flame" has 5 letters, but the first four, "flam", already identify it, because "fla" also begins flag, flash, flat and flavor.
  • "flam" is unique only within the English list: it also begins flamme in the French list, flamenco in the Italian list and flamingo in the Portuguese list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

Word #707 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech kupodivu
French épitaphe
Italian fuggente
Japanese さいきん
Korean 분위기
Portuguese enquanto
Spanish ficción

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

3 BIP39 words differ from "flame" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:

Read aloud, "flame" /fleɪm/ is one sound away from this word:

Words sharing the first three letters "fla":

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