Word #1605 11001000100

silk — BIP39 word #1605

"silk" is word #1605 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between silent and silly. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 11001000100, decimal index 1604.

/sɪlk/ · noun: a fine smooth shiny cloth made from threads spun by certain caterpillars

Russian: шёлк

Binary Representation

Four 1-bits and seven 0-bits; 330 of the 2048 indexes have exactly four 1-bits.

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

Position

#1605 of 2048

Hex Index

0x644

4-Letter Prefix

silk

About "silk" in BIP39

  • It takes all four letters to identify "silk": "sil" also begins silent, silly and silver.

Word #1605 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech srst
French réciter
Italian sedano
Japanese はんぶん
Korean 즉시
Portuguese rajada
Spanish retiro

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

Read aloud, "silk" /sɪlk/ is one sound away from this word:

Words sharing the first three letters "sil":

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