Word #1292 10100001011
pause — BIP39 word #1292
"pause" is word #1292 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between pattern and pave.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
10100001011,
decimal index 1291.
/pɔːz/ · verb: to stop doing something for a short time
Russian: пауза
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
#1292 of 2048
Hex Index
0x50B
4-Letter Prefix
paus
About "pause" in BIP39
- "pause" has 5 letters, but the first three, "pau", already identify it, because "pa" also begins 24 other words, among them pact, paddle, page and pair. Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
- "paus" is unique only within the English list: it also begins pausa in the Spanish list and pausar in the Portuguese list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
Word #1292 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
One BIP39 word differs from "pause" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand: