raw — BIP39 word #1429
"raw" is word #1429 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between raven and razor.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
10110010100,
decimal index 1428.
/rɔː/ · adjective: not cooked, or in its natural unprocessed state
Russian: сырой
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
#1429 of 2048
Hex Index
0x594
4-Letter Prefix
raw
About "raw" in BIP39
- It takes all three letters to identify "raw": "ra" also begins 20 other words, among them rabbit, raccoon, race and rack. Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
- "raw" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #23 (word 6 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 #1429 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
2 BIP39 words differ from "raw" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "raw" /rɔː/ is one sound away from these 4 words: