sort — BIP39 word #1661
"sort" is word #1661 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between sorry and soul.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
11001111100,
decimal index 1660.
/sɔːt/ · noun: a kind or type of person or thing
Russian: сортировать
Binary Representation
Seven 1-bits and four 0-bits; 330 of the 2048 indexes have exactly seven 1-bits.
One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):
Position
#1661 of 2048
Hex Index
0x67C
4-Letter Prefix
sort
About "sort" in BIP39
- It takes all four letters to identify "sort": "sor" also begins sorry.
- "sort" is unique only within the English list: it also begins sortir in the French list, sorteo in the Spanish list, sorteggio in the Italian list and sorteio in the Portuguese list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
- "sort" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #14 (word 4 of 18). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words.
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Word #1661 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
3 BIP39 words differ from "sort" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "sort" /sɔːt/ is one sound away from these 8 words:
Words sharing the first three letters "sor":