Word #1695 11010011110

stable — BIP39 word #1695

"stable" is word #1695 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between squirrel and stadium. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 11010011110, decimal index 1694.

/ˈsteɪbl/ · adjective: firmly fixed and not likely to move or change

Russian: стабильный

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

#1695 of 2048

Hex Index

0x69E

4-Letter Prefix

stab

About "stable" in BIP39

  • "stable" has 6 letters, but the first four, "stab", already identify it, because "sta" also begins 9 other words, among them stadium, staff, stage and stairs.
  • The same spelling is in the French BIP39 wordlist, but as word #1810 (index 1809), not #1695. A wallet set to French reads "stable" as 11100010001 instead of 11010011110, and decodes index 1694 as "ruisseau".
  • "stab" is unique only within the English list: it also begins stabile in the Italian list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
  • "stable" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #14 (word 16 of 18). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words.
Official test vector #14

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Word #1695 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech tlupa
French ruisseau
Italian sociale
Japanese ふすま
Korean 철학
Portuguese rodovia
Spanish sección

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

One BIP39 word differs from "stable" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:

Words sharing the first three letters "sta":

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