Word #1385 10101101000
public — BIP39 word #1385
"public" is word #1385 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between provide and pudding.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
10101101000,
decimal index 1384.
/ˈpʌblɪk/ · adjective: relating to or open to all people in a community
Russian: общественный
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
#1385 of 2048
Hex Index
0x568
4-Letter Prefix
publ
About "public" in BIP39
- "public" has 6 letters, but the first three, "pub", already identify it, because "pu" also begins 15 other words, among them pudding, pull, pulp and pulse. Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
- The same spelling is in the French BIP39 wordlist, but as word #1568 (index 1567), not #1385. A wallet set to French reads "public" as 11000011111 instead of 10101101000, and decodes index 1384 as "opter".
- "publ" is unique only within the English list: it also begins publicar in the Portuguese list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.