Word #962 01111000001

join — BIP39 word #962

"join" is word #962 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between job and joke. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 01111000001, decimal index 961.

/ʤɔɪn/ · verb: to connect things together, or to become a member of a group

Russian: присоединяться

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

#962 of 2048

Hex Index

0x3C1

4-Letter Prefix

join

About "join" in BIP39

  • "join" has 4 letters, but the first three, "joi", already identify it, because "jo" also begins job, joke, journey and joy. Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
  • "join" is unique only within the English list: it also begins joindre in the French list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
  • "join" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #16 (word 11 of 12). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words.
Official test vector #16

scheme spot photo card baby mountain device kick cradle pact join borrow

Word #962 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech neochota
French halte
Italian malto
Japanese せもたれ
Korean 시금치
Portuguese grilo
Spanish júpiter

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

One BIP39 word differs from "join" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:

Read aloud, "join" /ʤɔɪn/ is one sound away from this word:

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