pulse — BIP39 word #1389
"pulse" is word #1389 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between pulp and pumpkin.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
10101101100,
decimal index 1388.
/pʌls/ · noun: the regular beating of blood through the arteries as the heart pumps
Russian: пульс
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
#1389 of 2048
Hex Index
0x56C
4-Letter Prefix
puls
About "pulse" in BIP39
- "pulse" has 5 letters, but the first four, "puls", already identify it, because "pul" also begins pull and pulp.
- "puls" is unique only within the English list: it also begins pulsar in the French list, pulso in the Spanish list, pulsante in the Italian list and pulseira in the Portuguese list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
- "pulse" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #17 (word 9 of 18). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words.
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Word #1389 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
One BIP39 word differs from "pulse" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "pulse" /pʌls/ is one sound away from this word: