Word #1179 10010011010

nation — BIP39 word #1179

"nation" is word #1179 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between nasty and nature. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 10010011010, decimal index 1178.

/ˈneɪʃən/ · noun: a country, or a large group of people with a shared culture

Russian: нация

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):

battle spy rebuild local opera nuclear mule myself need narrow nature

Position

#1179 of 2048

Hex Index

0x49A

4-Letter Prefix

nati

About "nation" in BIP39

"nation" has 6 letters, but the first four, "nati", already identify it, because "nat" also begins nature.
The same spelling is in the French BIP39 wordlist, but as word #1302 (index 1301), not #1179. A wallet set to French reads "nation" as 10100010101 instead of 10010011010, and decodes index 1178 as "machine".
"nati" is unique only within the English list: it also begins nativo in the Spanish list and nativa in the Portuguese list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
"nation" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #18 (word 15 of 24). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words.