ghost — BIP39 word #781
"ghost" is word #781 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between gesture and giant.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
01100001100,
decimal index 780.
/gəʊst/ · noun: the spirit of a dead person believed to appear to the living
Russian: призрак
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
#781 of 2048
Hex Index
0x30C
4-Letter Prefix
ghos
About "ghost" in BIP39
- Two letters are enough: no other BIP39 word begins with "gh", which makes "ghost" one of only 34 words that can be told apart this early.
- "ghost" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #18 (word 23 of 24). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words.
panda eyebrow bullet gorilla call smoke muffin taste mesh discover soft ostrich alcohol speed nation flash devote level hobby quick inner drive ghost inside
Word #781 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
One BIP39 word differs from "ghost" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "ghost" /gəʊst/ is one sound away from these 5 words: