Word #1597 11000111100

shy — BIP39 word #1597

"shy" is word #1597 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between shuffle and sibling. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 11000111100, decimal index 1596.

/ʃaɪ/ · adjective: nervous or uncomfortable around other people

Russian: застенчивый

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

#1597 of 2048

Hex Index

0x63C

4-Letter Prefix

shy

About "shy" in BIP39

  • It takes all three letters to identify "shy": "sh" also begins 22 other words, among them shadow, shaft, shallow and share. Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.

Word #1597 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech spustit
French ravager
Italian scultore
Japanese はんすう
Korean 중부
Portuguese rabisco
Spanish reposo

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

Read aloud, "shy" /ʃaɪ/ is one sound away from these 6 words:

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