Word #1300 10100010011

pen — BIP39 word #1300

"pen" is word #1300 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between pelican and penalty. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 10100010011, decimal index 1299.

/pɛn/ · noun: a tool for writing or drawing with ink

Russian: ручка

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

#1300 of 2048

Hex Index

0x513

4-Letter Prefix

pen

About "pen" in BIP39

  • All three letters of "pen" also begin longer words: penalty and pencil. So "pen" cannot be shortened, and a backup that keeps the first four letters of each word stores it as "pen" but penalty as "pena".

Word #1300 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech posed
French narrer
Italian pirolisi
Japanese てわたし
Korean 육십
Portuguese morcego
Spanish olfato

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

4 BIP39 words differ from "pen" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:

Read aloud, "pen" /pɛn/ is one sound away from these 2 words:

Words sharing the first three letters "pen":

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