Word #1007 01111101110

lava — BIP39 word #1007

"lava" is word #1007 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between laundry and law. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 01111101110, decimal index 1006.

/ˈlɑːvə/ · noun: hot liquid rock that comes out of a volcano

Russian: лава

Binary Representation

Eight 1-bits and three 0-bits; 165 of the 2048 indexes have exactly eight 1-bits.

One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):

Position

#1007 of 2048

Hex Index

0x3EE

4-Letter Prefix

lava

About "lava" in BIP39

  • "lava" has 4 letters, but the first three, "lav", 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.
  • "lava" is unique only within the English list: it also begins lavabo in the French list, lavar in the Spanish list, lavagna in the Italian list and lavanda in the Portuguese list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
  • "lava" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #21 (word 12 of 24). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words.
Official test vector #21

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Word #1007 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech obilnice
French idylle
Italian metallo
Japanese そうり
Korean 신용
Portuguese ignorado
Spanish leopardo

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