Word #809 01100101000
govern — BIP39 word #809
"govern" is word #809 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between gossip and gown.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
01100101000,
decimal index 808.
/ˈgʌvən/ · verb: to officially control and manage a country or organization
Russian: управлять
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
#809 of 2048
Hex Index
0x328
4-Letter Prefix
gove
About "govern" in BIP39
- "govern" has 6 letters, but the first three, "gov", already identify it, because "go" also begins 9 other words, among them goat, goddess, gold and good. Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
- "gove" is unique only within the English list: it also begins governo in the Italian list and governar in the Portuguese list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.