Word #859 01101011010

hero — BIP39 word #859

"hero" is word #859 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between hen and hidden. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 01101011010, decimal index 858.

/ˈhɪərəʊ/ · noun: a person admired for courage, or the main character of a story

Russian: герой

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

#859 of 2048

Hex Index

0x35A

4-Letter Prefix

hero

About "hero" in BIP39

  • "hero" has 4 letters, but the first three, "her", already identify it, because "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 #859 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech mluvit
French fouiller
Italian inumidire
Japanese じゅんばん
Korean 세종대왕
Portuguese foguete
Spanish hembra

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

One BIP39 word differs from "hero" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:

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