Word #1183 10010011110

need — BIP39 word #1183

"need" is word #1183 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between neck and negative. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 10010011110, decimal index 1182.

/niːd/ · verb: to require something because it is necessary or important

Russian: потребность

Binary Representation

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

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

Position

#1183 of 2048

Hex Index

0x49E

4-Letter Prefix

need

About "need" in BIP39

  • "need" has 4 letters, but the first three, "nee", already identify it, because "ne" also begins 14 other words, among them near, neck, negative and neglect. Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.

Word #1183 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech pazneht
French maigre
Italian ortica
Japanese ちさい
Korean 옆집
Portuguese lorde
Spanish mosca

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

2 BIP39 words differ from "need" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:

Read aloud, "need" /niːd/ is one sound away from this word:

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