Word #1673 11010001000

speed — BIP39 word #1673

"speed" is word #1673 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between special and spell. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 11010001000, decimal index 1672.

/spiːd/ · noun: how fast something moves or happens

Russian: скорость

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

#1673 of 2048

Hex Index

0x688

4-Letter Prefix

spee

About "speed" in BIP39

  • "speed" has 5 letters, but the first four, "spee", already identify it, because "spe" also begins speak, special, spell and spend.
  • "speed" appears in two of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vectors #18 (word 14 of 24) and #19 (word 8 of 12). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words.
Official test vector #18

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Word #1673 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech technika
French rivière
Italian sinusoide
Japanese ひんしゅ
Korean 창고
Portuguese resumir
Spanish salmón

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

Read aloud, "speed" /spiːd/ is one sound away from this word:

Words sharing the first three letters "spe":

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