Word #947 01110110010
iron — BIP39 word #947
"iron" is word #947 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between involve and island.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
01110110010,
decimal index 946.
/ˈaɪən/ · noun: a strong hard gray metal, or a device for smoothing clothes
Russian: железо
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
#947 of 2048
Hex Index
0x3B2
4-Letter Prefix
iron
About "iron" in BIP39
- Two letters are enough: no other BIP39 word begins with "ir", which makes "iron" one of only 34 words that can be told apart this early.
- "iron" is unique only within the English list: it also begins ironique in the French list, ironía in the Spanish list, ironico in the Italian list, ironizar in the Portuguese list and ironie in the Czech list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
Word #947 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
One BIP39 word differs from "iron" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "iron" /ˈaɪən/ is one sound away from this word: