Word #883 01101110010
hour — BIP39 word #883
"hour" is word #883 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between hotel and hover.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
01101110010,
decimal index 882.
/ˈaʊə/ · noun: a period of sixty minutes
Russian: час
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
#883 of 2048
Hex Index
0x372
4-Letter Prefix
hour
About "hour" in BIP39
- "hour" has 4 letters, but the first three, "hou", already identify it, because "ho" also begins 17 other words, among them hobby, hockey, hold and hole. Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
- "hour" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #21 (word 2 of 24). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words.
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Word #883 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
Read aloud, "hour" /ˈaʊə/ is one sound away from these 3 words: