Word #998 01111100101

lake — BIP39 word #998

"lake" is word #998 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between lady and lamp. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 01111100101, decimal index 997.

/leɪk/ · noun: a large area of water surrounded by land

Russian: озеро

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

#998 of 2048

Hex Index

0x3E5

4-Letter Prefix

lake

About "lake" in BIP39

  • "lake" has 4 letters, but the first three, "lak", already identify it, because "la" also begins 19 other words, among them lab, label, labor and ladder. Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.

Word #998 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech obal
French humain
Italian meno
Japanese そいね
Korean 식품
Portuguese homem
Spanish lector

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

3 BIP39 words differ from "lake" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:

Read aloud, "lake" /leɪk/ is one sound away from these 2 words:

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