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Word #708 01011000011

flash

/flæʃ/

Binary Representation

0
1
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
1
1

11-bit index: 01011000011 (decimal 707)

Position

#708 of 2048

Hex Index

0x2C3

4-Letter Prefix

flas

About "flash" in BIP39

"flash" is the #708 word in the official BIP39 English mnemonic wordlist. It is encoded as the 11-bit binary value 01011000011 (decimal index 707), placing it at the 35% mark of the full 2048-word list.

The 4-letter prefix "flas" uniquely identifies this word among all 2048 entries. At 5 characters, it falls in the typical length range for BIP39 words, balancing readability with distinctiveness during manual wallet recovery.

Located in the middle section of the wordlist (index 707), "flash" belongs to the "F" letter group, which contains 106 words. It is the #57 entry in that group. Mid-range words have a balanced mix of 0s and 1s in their binary representation.

In a 12-word seed phrase, each word encodes 11 bits of entropy. The probability of "flash" appearing in any specific position of a randomly generated phrase is 1 in 2048 (≈ 0.049%). A complete 24-word phrase encodes 256 bits of entropy, providing security equivalent to a key space of approximately 1.16 × 10⁷⁷ — far beyond the reach of brute-force attacks.

Word #708 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Every official BIP39 wordlist has exactly 2048 entries, so index 707 encodes the same 11-bit value (01011000011) in every language. A wallet configured for one of these languages would use this word instead of "flash":

Czech kurt
French époque
Italian fulmine
Japanese ざいげん
Korean 분필
Portuguese enraizar
Spanish ficha
Chinese (Traditional)
Chinese (Simplified)

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

One BIP39 word differs from "flash" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:

Words sharing the first three letters "fla":

Reminder: the first 4 letters of every BIP39 word are unique across the whole list, so "flas" always identifies "flash".

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