Word #1265 10011110000
own — BIP39 word #1265
"own" is word #1265 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between over and owner.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
10011110000,
decimal index 1264.
/əʊn/ · adjective: belonging to a particular person and no one else
Russian: свой
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
#1265 of 2048
Hex Index
0x4F0
4-Letter Prefix
own
About "own" in BIP39
- All three letters of "own" also begin longer words: owner. So "own" cannot be shortened, and a backup that keeps the first four letters of each word stores it as "own" but owner as "owne".
Word #1265 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
2 BIP39 words differ from "own" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "own" /əʊn/ is one sound away from these 8 words:
Words sharing the first three letters "own":