Word #1187 10010100010
nephew — BIP39 word #1187
"nephew" is word #1187 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between neither and nerve.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
10010100010,
decimal index 1186.
/ˈnɛfjuː/ · noun: a son of your brother or sister
Russian: племянник
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
#1187 of 2048
Hex Index
0x4A2
4-Letter Prefix
neph
About "nephew" in BIP39
- "nephew" has 6 letters, but the first three, "nep", already identify it, because "ne" also begins 14 other words, among them near, neck, need and negative. Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
- "nephew" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #17 (word 14 of 18). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words.
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