Word #821 01100110100
grief — BIP39 word #821
"grief" is word #821 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between grid and grit.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
01100110100,
decimal index 820.
/griːf/ · noun: deep sorrow, especially caused by someone's death
Russian: горе
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
#821 of 2048
Hex Index
0x334
4-Letter Prefix
grie
About "grief" in BIP39
- "grief" has 5 letters, but the first four, "grie", already identify it, because "gri" also begins grid and grit.
- "grie" is unique only within the English list: it also begins grieta in the Spanish list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
Word #821 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
One BIP39 word differs from "grief" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "grief" /griːf/ is one sound away from this word: