Word #1269 10011110100

ozone — BIP39 word #1269

"ozone" is word #1269 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between oyster and pact. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 10011110100, decimal index 1268.

/ˈəʊzəʊn/ · noun: a form of oxygen whose atmospheric layer absorbs harmful ultraviolet rays

Russian: озон

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

#1269 of 2048

Hex Index

0x4F4

4-Letter Prefix

ozon

About "ozone" in BIP39

  • Two letters are enough: no other BIP39 word begins with "oz", which makes "ozone" one of only 34 words that can be told apart this early.
  • The same spelling is in the French BIP39 wordlist, but as word #1410 (index 1409), not #1269. A wallet set to French reads "ozone" as 10110000001 instead of 10011110100, and decodes index 1268 as "monument".
  • "ozon" is unique only within the English list: it also begins ozono in the Spanish list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
  • "ozone" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #13 (word 1 of 12). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words.
Official test vector #13

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Word #1269 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech pokoj
French monument
Italian pesista
Japanese ておくれ
Korean 원고
Portuguese mexicano
Spanish obra

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

One BIP39 word differs from "ozone" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:

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