Word #1287 10100000110
patch — BIP39 word #1287
"patch" is word #1287 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between pass and path.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
10100000110,
decimal index 1286.
/pæʧ/ · noun: a piece of material covering a hole, or a small area
Russian: заплатка
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
#1287 of 2048
Hex Index
0x506
4-Letter Prefix
patc
About "patch" in BIP39
- "patch" has 5 letters, but the first four, "patc", already identify it, because "pat" also begins path, patient, patrol and pattern.
- "patch" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #19 (word 10 of 12). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words.
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