Word #1601 11001000000

siege — BIP39 word #1601

"siege" is word #1601 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between side and sight. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 11001000000, decimal index 1600.

/siːʤ/ · noun: a military operation surrounding a town to force its surrender

Russian: осада

Binary Representation

Three 1-bits and eight 0-bits; 165 of the 2048 indexes have exactly three 1-bits.

One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):

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Position

#1601 of 2048

Hex Index

0x640

4-Letter Prefix

sieg

About "siege" in BIP39

"siege" has 5 letters, but the first three, "sie", already identify it, because "si" also begins 18 other words, among them sibling, sick, side and sight. Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.