Word #725 01011010100

fold — BIP39 word #725

"fold" is word #725 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between foil and follow. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 01011010100, decimal index 724.

/fəʊld/ · verb: to bend something flat over itself so that one part covers another

Russian: складывать

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

#725 of 2048

Hex Index

0x2D4

4-Letter Prefix

fold

About "fold" in BIP39

  • It takes all four letters to identify "fold": "fol" also begins follow.
  • "fold" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #14 (word 10 of 18). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words.
Official test vector #14

gravity machine north sort system female filter attitude volume fold club stay feature office ecology stable narrow fog

Word #725 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech lakomec
French essayer
Italian galoppo
Japanese さくら
Korean 비디오
Portuguese enxerto
Spanish firma

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

Read aloud, "fold" /fəʊld/ is one sound away from this word:

Words sharing the first three letters "fol":

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