Word #1231 10011001110

oil — BIP39 word #1231

"oil" is word #1231 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between often and okay. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 10011001110, decimal index 1230.

/ɔɪl/ · noun: a thick liquid used as fuel, for cooking or to make machines run smoothly

Russian: масло

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

#1231 of 2048

Hex Index

0x4CE

4-Letter Prefix

oil

About "oil" in BIP39

  • Two letters are enough: no other BIP39 word begins with "oi", which makes "oil" one of only 34 words that can be told apart this early.

Word #1231 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech plnit
French mensonge
Italian parlato
Japanese つづく
Korean 왕자
Portuguese maroto
Spanish neto

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

Read aloud, "oil" /ɔɪl/ is one sound away from these 3 words:

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