light — BIP39 word #1037
"light" is word #1037 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between lift and like.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
10000001100,
decimal index 1036.
/laɪt/ · noun: the natural brightness that makes it possible to see things
Russian: свет
Binary Representation
Three 1-bits and eight 0-bits; 165 of the 2048 indexes have exactly three 1-bits.
One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):
Position
#1037 of 2048
Hex Index
0x40C
4-Letter Prefix
ligh
About "light" in BIP39
- "light" has 5 letters, but the first three, "lig", already identify it, because "li" also begins 16 other words, among them liar, liberty, library and license. Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
- "light" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #20 (word 1 of 18). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words.
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Word #1037 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
6 BIP39 words differ from "light" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "light" /laɪt/ is one sound away from these 6 words: