Word #1580 11000101011

shell — BIP39 word #1580

"shell" is word #1580 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between shed and sheriff. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 11000101011, decimal index 1579.

/ʃɛl/ · noun: the hard outer covering of an egg, nut or some animals

Russian: раковина

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):

earthlyricstornadostepsniffscrapshufflesettleshineshareshed

Position

#1580 of 2048

Hex Index

0x62B

4-Letter Prefix

shel

About "shell" in BIP39

  • "shell" has 5 letters, but the first four, "shel", already identify it, because "she" also begins shed and sheriff.

Word #1580 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech soulad
French querelle
Italian scindere
Japanese はぶらし
Korean 주식
Portuguese punir
Spanish rehén
Traditional Chinese 牌
Simplified Chinese 牌

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

2 BIP39 words differ from "shell" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:

sellspell

Read aloud, "shell" /ʃɛl/ is one sound away from these 3 words:

chef /ʃɛf/shed /ʃɛd/tell /tɛl/

Words sharing the first three letters "she":

shedsheriff

More BIP39 Words Starting with "S"

#1576 shaft #1577 shallow #1578 share #1579 shed #1581 sheriff #1582 shield #1583 shift #1584 shine
View all words starting with "S"

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