Word #1583 11000101110

shift — BIP39 word #1583

"shift" is word #1583 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between shield and shine. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 11000101110, decimal index 1582.

/ʃɪft/ · noun: a change in position or direction, or a period of work

Russian: сдвиг

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

#1583 of 2048

Hex Index

0x62E

4-Letter Prefix

shif

About "shift" in BIP39

  • "shift" has 5 letters, but the first four, "shif", already identify it, because "shi" also begins shield, shine, ship and shiver.

Word #1583 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech soused
French quitter
Italian scivolo
Japanese はめつ
Korean 주장
Portuguese puxador
Spanish reja

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

Read aloud, "shift" /ʃɪft/ is one sound away from these 2 words:

Words sharing the first three letters "shi":

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