Word #1522 10111110001

sail — BIP39 word #1522

"sail" is word #1522 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between safe and salad. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 10111110001, decimal index 1521.

/seɪl/ · noun: a large piece of cloth that catches the wind to move a boat

Russian: парус

Binary Representation

Seven 1-bits and four 0-bits; 330 of the 2048 indexes have exactly seven 1-bits.

One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):

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Position

#1522 of 2048

Hex Index

0x5F1

4-Letter Prefix

sail

About "sail" in BIP39

"sail" has 4 letters, but the first three, "sai", already identify it, because "sa" also begins 18 other words, among them sad, saddle, sadness and safe. Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.