Word #1338 10100111001

poet — BIP39 word #1338

"poet" is word #1338 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between poem and point. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 10100111001, decimal index 1337.

/ˈpəʊɪt/ · noun: a person who writes poems

Russian: поэт

Binary Representation

Six 1-bits and five 0-bits; 462 of the 2048 indexes have exactly six 1-bits.

One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):

Position

#1338 of 2048

Hex Index

0x539

4-Letter Prefix

poet

About "poet" in BIP39

  • It takes all four letters to identify "poet": "poe" also begins poem.
  • "poet" is unique only within the English list: it also begins poeta in the Spanish list and poetisa in the Portuguese list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

Word #1338 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech prase
French novembre
Italian pratica
Japanese とくしゅう
Korean 이슬
Portuguese negrito
Spanish otoño

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

Words sharing the first three letters "poe":

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