loan — BIP39 word #1049
"loan" is word #1049 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between load and lobster.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
10000011000,
decimal index 1048.
/ləʊn/ · noun: money borrowed that must be paid back, usually with interest
Russian: ссуда
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
#1049 of 2048
Hex Index
0x418
4-Letter Prefix
loan
About "loan" in BIP39
- It takes all four letters to identify "loan": "loa" also begins load.
- "loan" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #15 (word 19 of 24). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words.
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Word #1049 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
One BIP39 word differs from "loan" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "loan" /ləʊn/ is one sound away from these 8 words:
Words sharing the first three letters "loa":