Word #838 01101000101
hamster — BIP39 word #838
"hamster" is word #838 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between hammer and hand.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
01101000101,
decimal index 837.
/ˈhæmstə/ · noun: a small furry rodent with large cheek pouches, often kept as a pet
Russian: хомяк
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
#838 of 2048
Hex Index
0x345
4-Letter Prefix
hams
About "hamster" in BIP39
- "hamster" has 7 letters, but the first four, "hams", already identify it, because "ham" also begins hammer.
- "hamster" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #15 (word 1 of 24). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words.
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Word #838 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
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