path — BIP39 word #1288
"path" is word #1288 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between patch and patient.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
10100000111,
decimal index 1287.
/pɑːθ/ · noun: a narrow track for walking, or the way something moves
Russian: путь
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
#1288 of 2048
Hex Index
0x507
4-Letter Prefix
path
About "path" in BIP39
- It takes all four letters to identify "path": "pat" also begins patch, patient, patrol and pattern.
- "path" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #21 (word 13 of 24). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words.
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Word #1288 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
2 BIP39 words differ from "path" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "path" /pɑːθ/ is one sound away from these 3 words: