Word #996 01111100011

ladder — BIP39 word #996

"ladder" is word #996 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between labor and lady. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 01111100011, decimal index 995.

/ˈlædə/ · noun: a frame with steps between two long sides, used for climbing

Russian: лестница

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):

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Position

#996 of 2048

Hex Index

0x3E3

4-Letter Prefix

ladd

About "ladder" in BIP39

"ladder" has 6 letters, but the first four, "ladd", already identify it, because "lad" also begins lady.
"ladd" is unique only within the English list: it also begins laddove in the Italian list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
"ladder" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #22 (word 2 of 12). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words.

Official test vector #22

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