Word #1020 01111111011

legal — BIP39 word #1020

"legal" is word #1020 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between leg and legend. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 01111111011, decimal index 1019.

/ˈliːgəl/ · adjective: allowed by law, or relating to the law

Russian: законный

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):

youth disorder garage hunt jazz kiwi latin lazy lend left leg

Position

#1020 of 2048

Hex Index

0x3FB

4-Letter Prefix

lega

About "legal" in BIP39

"legal" has 5 letters, but the first four, "lega", already identify it, because "leg" also begins leg and legend.
Its first letters also spell another BIP39 word, leg. Write "legal" out in full: cut short, it turns into a different valid word.
"lega" is unique only within the English list: it also begins legale in the Italian list and legado in the Portuguese list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
"legal" appears in three of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vectors #2 (words 1 and 9 of 12), #6 (words 1, 9 and 17 of 18) and #10 (words 1, 9 and 17 of 24). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words.