Word #1366 10101010101

primary — BIP39 word #1366

"primary" is word #1366 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between pride and print. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 10101010101, decimal index 1365.

/ˈpraɪməri/ · adjective: most important or main, or coming first

Russian: основной

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

#1366 of 2048

Hex Index

0x555

4-Letter Prefix

prim

About "primary" in BIP39

  • "primary" has 7 letters, but the first four, "prim", already identify it, because "pri" also begins 7 other words, among them price, pride, print and priority.
  • "prim" is unique only within the English list: it also begins primitif in the French list, primo in the Spanish list, prima in the Italian list and primata in the Portuguese list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
  • "primary" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #24 (word 10 of 24). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words.
Official test vector #24

void come effort suffer camp survey warrior heavy shoot primary clutch crush open amazing screen patrol group space point ten exist slush involve unfold

Word #1366 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech ptactvo
French officier
Italian prugna
Japanese ともる
Korean 인체
Portuguese nuvem
Spanish papel

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