Word #867 01101100010

hobby — BIP39 word #867

"hobby" is word #867 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between history and hockey. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 01101100010, decimal index 866.

/ˈhɒbi/ · noun: an activity done regularly for pleasure in your free time

Russian: хобби

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

#867 of 2048

Hex Index

0x362

4-Letter Prefix

hobb

About "hobby" in BIP39

  • "hobby" has 5 letters, but the first three, "hob", already identify it, because "ho" also begins 17 other words, among them hockey, hold, hole and holiday. Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
  • "hobby" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #18 (word 19 of 24). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words.
Official test vector #18

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Word #867 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech mokro
French frégate
Italian iride
Japanese しんか
Korean 소나기
Portuguese fosco
Spanish higiene

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Read aloud, "hobby" /ˈhɒbi/ is one sound away from this word:

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