Word #905 01110001000
illegal — BIP39 word #905
"illegal" is word #905 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between ill and illness.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
01110001000,
decimal index 904.
/ɪˈliːgəl/ · adjective: not allowed by law
Russian: незаконный
Binary Representation
Four 1-bits and seven 0-bits; 330 of the 2048 indexes have exactly four 1-bits.
One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):
Position
#905 of 2048
Hex Index
0x388
4-Letter Prefix
ille
About "illegal" in BIP39
- "illegal" has 7 letters, but the first four, "ille", already identify it, because "ill" also begins ill and illness.
- Its first letters also spell another BIP39 word, ill. Write "illegal" out in full: cut short, it turns into a different valid word.
- "ille" is unique only within the English list: it also begins illeso in the Italian list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
Word #905 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
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Read aloud, "illegal" /ɪˈliːgəl/ is one sound away from this word: