sing — BIP39 word #1611
"sing" is word #1611 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between since and siren.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
11001001010,
decimal index 1610.
/sɪŋ/ · verb: to make musical sounds with your voice
Russian: петь
Binary Representation
Five 1-bits and six 0-bits; 462 of the 2048 indexes have exactly five 1-bits.
One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):
Position
#1611 of 2048
Hex Index
0x64A
4-Letter Prefix
sing
About "sing" in BIP39
- It takes all four letters to identify "sing": "sin" also begins since.
- "sing" is unique only within the English list: it also begins singolo in the Italian list and singular in the Portuguese list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
- "sing" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #21 (word 21 of 24). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words.
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Word #1611 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
5 BIP39 words differ from "sing" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Swap two neighbouring letters and "sing" becomes sign, another valid word that is easy to miss when copying a phrase.
Read aloud, "sing" /sɪŋ/ is one sound away from these 2 words:
Words sharing the first three letters "sin":