Word #1552 11000001111

sea — BIP39 word #1552

"sea" is word #1552 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between scrub and search. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 11000001111, decimal index 1551.

/siː/ · noun: the large area of salt water that covers much of the earth

Russian: море

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

#1552 of 2048

Hex Index

0x60F

4-Letter Prefix

sea

About "sea" in BIP39

  • All three letters of "sea" also begin longer words: search, season and seat. So "sea" cannot be shortened, and a backup that keeps the first four letters of each word stores it as "sea" but search as "sear".

Word #1552 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech sluch
French procéder
Italian sbalzo
Japanese はこぶ
Korean 조상
Portuguese prefeito
Spanish rasgo

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

One BIP39 word differs from "sea" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:

Read aloud, "sea" /siː/ is one sound away from these 9 words:

Words sharing the first three letters "sea":

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