Word #1417 10110001000
rain — BIP39 word #1417
"rain" is word #1417 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between rail and raise.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
10110001000,
decimal index 1416.
/reɪn/ · noun: water falling from the clouds in drops
Russian: дождь
Binary Representation
Four 1-bits and seven 0-bits; 330 of the 2048 indexes have exactly four 1-bits.
One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):
Position
#1417 of 2048
Hex Index
0x588
4-Letter Prefix
rain
About "rain" in BIP39
- It takes all four letters to identify "rain": "rai" also begins rail and raise.
- "rain" is unique only within the English list: it also begins rainha in the Portuguese list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
Word #1417 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
6 BIP39 words differ from "rain" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "rain" /reɪn/ is one sound away from these 6 words: