Word #829 01100111100
guide — BIP39 word #829
"guide" is word #829 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between guess and guilt.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
01100111100,
decimal index 828.
/gaɪd/ · noun: a person who shows the way, or a book of information
Russian: гид
Binary Representation
Six 1-bits and five 0-bits; 462 of the 2048 indexes have exactly six 1-bits.
One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):
Position
#829 of 2048
Hex Index
0x33C
4-Letter Prefix
guid
About "guide" in BIP39
- "guide" has 5 letters, but the first four, "guid", already identify it, because "gui" also begins guilt and guitar.
- The same spelling is in the French BIP39 wordlist, but as word #954 (index 953), not #829. A wallet set to French reads "guide" as 01110111001 instead of 01100111100, and decodes index 828 as "financer".
- "guid" is unique only within the English list: it also begins guidare in the Italian list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
Word #829 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
One BIP39 word differs from "guide" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "guide" /gaɪd/ is one sound away from these 6 words: