Word #1301 10100010100
penalty — BIP39 word #1301
"penalty" is word #1301 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between pen and pencil.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
10100010100,
decimal index 1300.
/ˈpɛnlti/ · noun: a punishment for breaking a rule or law
Russian: штраф
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
#1301 of 2048
Hex Index
0x514
4-Letter Prefix
pena
About "penalty" in BIP39
- "penalty" has 7 letters, but the first four, "pena", already identify it, because "pen" also begins pen and pencil.
- Its first letters also spell another BIP39 word, pen. Write "penalty" out in full: cut short, it turns into a different valid word.
- "pena" is unique only within the English list: it also begins pena in the Spanish list, penare in the Italian list and penalta in the Czech list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.