Word #1270 10011110101

pact — BIP39 word #1270

"pact" is word #1270 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between ozone and paddle. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 10011110101, decimal index 1269.

/pækt/ · noun: a formal agreement between people or countries

Russian: пакт

Binary Representation

Seven 1-bits and four 0-bits; 330 of the 2048 indexes have exactly seven 1-bits.

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

Position

#1270 of 2048

Hex Index

0x4F5

4-Letter Prefix

pact

About "pact" in BIP39

  • "pact" has 4 letters, but the first three, "pac", already identify it, because "pa" also begins 24 other words, among them paddle, page, pair and palace. Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
  • "pact" is unique only within the English list: it also begins pacto in the Spanish list and pactuar in the Portuguese list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
  • "pact" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #16 (word 10 of 12). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words.
Official test vector #16

scheme spot photo card baby mountain device kick cradle pact join borrow

Word #1270 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech pokrok
French moqueur
Italian peso
Japanese てきとう
Korean 원래
Portuguese micro
Spanish obrero

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

act

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