seed — BIP39 word #1560
"seed" is word #1560 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between security and seek.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
11000010111,
decimal index 1559.
/siːd/ · noun: the small hard part of a plant from which a new plant grows
Russian: семя
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
#1560 of 2048
Hex Index
0x617
4-Letter Prefix
seed
About "seed" in BIP39
- It takes all four letters to identify "seed": "see" also begins seek.
Word #1560 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
5 BIP39 words differ from "seed" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "seed" /siːd/ is one sound away from these 7 words:
Words sharing the first three letters "see":