Word #769 01100000000
gas — BIP39 word #769
"gas" is word #769 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between garment and gasp.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
01100000000,
decimal index 768.
/gæs/ · noun: a substance like air that is neither solid nor liquid, or fuel
Russian: газ
Binary Representation
Two 1-bits and nine 0-bits; 55 of the 2048 indexes have exactly two 1-bits.
One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):
Position
#769 of 2048
Hex Index
0x300
4-Letter Prefix
gas
About "gas" in BIP39
- All three letters of "gas" also begin longer words: gasp. So "gas" cannot be shortened, and a backup that keeps the first four letters of each word stores it as "gas" but gasp as "gasp".
Word #769 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
2 BIP39 words differ from "gas" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "gas" /gæs/ is one sound away from these 3 words:
Words sharing the first three letters "gas":