hair — BIP39 word #835
"hair" is word #835 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between habit and half.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
01101000010,
decimal index 834.
/heə/ · noun: the fine threads that grow from the skin, especially on the head
Russian: волосы
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
#835 of 2048
Hex Index
0x342
4-Letter Prefix
hair
About "hair" in BIP39
- "hair" has 4 letters, but the first three, "hai", already identify it, because "ha" also begins 14 other words, among them habit, half, hammer and hamster. Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
- "hair" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #23 (word 15 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 #835 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
3 BIP39 words differ from "hair" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "hair" /heə/ is one sound away from these 7 words: