Word #1341 10100111100
pole — BIP39 word #1341
"pole" is word #1341 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between polar and police.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
10100111100,
decimal index 1340.
/pəʊl/ · noun: a long thin stick, or one of the two ends of the earth's axis
Russian: шест
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
#1341 of 2048
Hex Index
0x53C
4-Letter Prefix
pole
About "pole" in BIP39
- It takes all four letters to identify "pole": "pol" also begins polar and police.
- "pole" is unique only within the English list: it also begins polen in the Spanish list, polenta in the Italian list, polegada in the Portuguese list and poledne in the Czech list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
Word #1341 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
One BIP39 word differs from "pole" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "pole" /pəʊl/ is one sound away from these 5 words: