Word #1008 01111101111

law — BIP39 word #1008

"law" is word #1008 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between lava and lawn. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 01111101111, decimal index 1007.

/lɔː/ · noun: a rule or system of rules made by a government

Russian: закон

Binary Representation

Nine 1-bits and two 0-bits; 55 of the 2048 indexes have exactly nine 1-bits.

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

Position

#1008 of 2048

Hex Index

0x3EF

4-Letter Prefix

law

About "law" in BIP39

  • All three letters of "law" also begin longer words: lawn and lawsuit. So "law" cannot be shortened, and a backup that keeps the first four letters of each word stores it as "law" but lawn as "lawn".

Word #1008 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech objasnit
French ignorer
Italian metodo
Japanese そえもの
Korean 신제품
Portuguese igreja
Spanish lesión

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

Read aloud, "law" /lɔː/ is one sound away from these 4 words:

Words sharing the first three letters "law":

More BIP39 Words Starting with "L"

View all words starting with "L"

Seed phrase, key and recovery guides