gate — BIP39 word #771
"gate" is word #771 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between gasp and gather.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
01100000010,
decimal index 770.
/geɪt/ · noun: a movable barrier that closes an opening in a wall or fence
Russian: ворота
Binary Representation
Three 1-bits and eight 0-bits; 165 of the 2048 indexes have exactly three 1-bits.
One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):
Position
#771 of 2048
Hex Index
0x302
4-Letter Prefix
gate
About "gate" in BIP39
- It takes all four letters to identify "gate": "gat" also begins gather.
- "gate" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #17 (word 7 of 18). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words.
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Word #771 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
3 BIP39 words differ from "gate" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "gate" /geɪt/ is one sound away from these 6 words:
Words sharing the first three letters "gat":