horn — BIP39 word #877
"horn" is word #877 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between hope and horror.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
01101101100,
decimal index 876.
/hɔːn/ · noun: a hard pointed growth on an animal's head, or a warning device
Russian: рог
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
#877 of 2048
Hex Index
0x36C
4-Letter Prefix
horn
About "horn" in BIP39
- It takes all four letters to identify "horn": "hor" also begins horror and horse.
- "horn" is unique only within the English list: it also begins horno in the Spanish list and hornina in the Czech list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
- "horn" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #17 (word 1 of 18). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words.
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Word #877 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
One BIP39 word differs from "horn" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "horn" /hɔːn/ is one sound away from these 5 words: