Word #858 01101011001

hen — BIP39 word #858

"hen" is word #858 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between help and hero. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 01101011001, decimal index 857.

/hɛn/ · noun: a female chicken, or the female of other birds

Russian: курица

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

#858 of 2048

Hex Index

0x359

4-Letter Prefix

hen

About "hen" in BIP39

  • It takes all three letters to identify "hen": "he" also begins 10 other words, among them head, health, heart and heavy. Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.

Word #858 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech mlsat
French fougère
Italian intuito
Japanese しゅらば
Korean 세월
Portuguese fogo
Spanish helio

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

4 BIP39 words differ from "hen" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:

Read aloud, "hen" /hɛn/ is one sound away from these 2 words:

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