Word #989 01111011100
knee — BIP39 word #989
"knee" is word #989 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between kiwi and knife.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
01111011100,
decimal index 988.
/niː/ · noun: the joint in the middle of the leg where it bends
Russian: колено
Binary Representation
Seven 1-bits and four 0-bits; 330 of the 2048 indexes have exactly seven 1-bits.
One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):
Position
#989 of 2048
Hex Index
0x3DC
4-Letter Prefix
knee
About "knee" in BIP39
- "knee" has 4 letters, but the first three, "kne", already identify it, because "kn" also begins knife, knock and know. Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
- "knee" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #17 (word 3 of 18). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words.
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Word #989 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
Read aloud, "knee" /niː/ is one sound away from these 7 words: