Word #881 01101110000
host — BIP39 word #881
"host" is word #881 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between hospital and hotel.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
01101110000,
decimal index 880.
/həʊst/ · noun: a person who receives or entertains guests, or presents a show
Russian: хозяин
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
#881 of 2048
Hex Index
0x370
4-Letter Prefix
host
About "host" in BIP39
- It takes all four letters to identify "host": "hos" also begins hospital.
- "host" is unique only within the English list: it also begins hostil in the Spanish list and hostina in the Czech list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
Word #881 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
3 BIP39 words differ from "host" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "host" /həʊst/ is one sound away from these 3 words:
Words sharing the first three letters "hos":