Word #1166 10010001101

museum — BIP39 word #1166

"museum" is word #1166 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between muscle and mushroom. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 10010001101, decimal index 1165.

/mju(ː)ˈzɪəm/ · noun: a building where objects of historical or artistic interest are displayed

Russian: музей

Binary Representation

Five 1-bits and six 0-bits; 462 of the 2048 indexes have exactly five 1-bits.

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

Position

#1166 of 2048

Hex Index

0x48D

4-Letter Prefix

muse

About "museum" in BIP39

  • "museum" has 6 letters, but the first four, "muse", already identify it, because "mus" also begins muscle, mushroom, music and must.
  • "muse" is unique only within the English list: it also begins museo in the Spanish list, museu in the Portuguese list and muset in the Czech list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
  • "museum" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #21 (word 16 of 24). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words.
Official test vector #21

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Word #1166 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech panika
French loyal
Italian opposto
Japanese たんまつ
Korean 열차
Portuguese linda
Spanish molde

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