Word #865 01101100000

hire — BIP39 word #865

"hire" is word #865 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between hip and history. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 01101100000, decimal index 864.

/ˈhaɪə/ · verb: to employ someone, or to pay to use something for a time

Russian: нанимать

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

#865 of 2048

Hex Index

0x360

4-Letter Prefix

hire

About "hire" in BIP39

  • "hire" has 4 letters, but the first three, "hir", already identify it, because "hi" also begins hidden, high, hill, hint, hip and history. Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.

Word #865 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech modlitba
French frapper
Italian ipotesi
Japanese しらせる
Korean 소극적
Portuguese forno
Spanish hierro

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

Read aloud, "hire" /ˈhaɪə/ is one sound away from these 4 words:

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