Word #1074 10000110001
mail — BIP39 word #1074
"mail" is word #1074 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between maid and main.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
10000110001,
decimal index 1073.
/meɪl/ · noun: letters and parcels sent by post, or email
Russian: почта
Binary Representation
Four 1-bits and seven 0-bits; 330 of the 2048 indexes have exactly four 1-bits.
One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):
Position
#1074 of 2048
Hex Index
0x431
4-Letter Prefix
About "mail" in BIP39
- It takes all four letters to identify "mail": "mai" also begins maid and main.
- "mail" is unique only within the English list: it also begins maillon in the French list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
Word #1074 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
5 BIP39 words differ from "mail" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "mail" /meɪl/ is one sound away from these 3 words: