Word #1564 11000011011
sell — BIP39 word #1564
"sell" is word #1564 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between select and seminar.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
11000011011,
decimal index 1563.
/sɛl/ · verb: to give something to someone in exchange for money
Russian: продавать
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
#1564 of 2048
Hex Index
0x61B
4-Letter Prefix
sell
About "sell" in BIP39
- It takes all four letters to identify "sell": "sel" also begins select.
- "sell" is unique only within the English list: it also begins sello in the Spanish list and sella in the Italian list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
Word #1564 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
3 BIP39 words differ from "sell" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "sell" /sɛl/ is one sound away from these 3 words:
Words sharing the first three letters "sel":