Word #904 01110000111

ill — BIP39 word #904

"ill" is word #904 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between ignore and illegal. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 01110000111, decimal index 903.

/ɪl/ · adjective: suffering from a disease or not feeling well

Russian: больной

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

#904 of 2048

Hex Index

0x387

4-Letter Prefix

ill

About "ill" in BIP39

  • All three letters of "ill" also begin longer words: illegal and illness. So "ill" cannot be shortened, and a backup that keeps the first four letters of each word stores it as "ill" but illegal as "ille".

Word #904 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech nabourat
French génie
Italian leone
Japanese すばらしい
Korean 수건
Portuguese garfo
Spanish igual

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

Read aloud, "ill" /ɪl/ is one sound away from these 2 words:

Words sharing the first three letters "ill":

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