Word #1697 11010100000
staff — BIP39 word #1697
"staff" is word #1697 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between stadium and stage.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
11010100000,
decimal index 1696.
/stɑːf/ · noun: the people who work for an organization
Russian: персонал
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
#1697 of 2048
Hex Index
0x6A0
4-Letter Prefix
staf
About "staff" in BIP39
- "staff" has 5 letters, but the first four, "staf", already identify it, because "sta" also begins 9 other words, among them stable, stadium, stage and stairs.
- "staf" is unique only within the English list: it also begins staffa in the Italian list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
Word #1697 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
One BIP39 word differs from "staff" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "staff" /stɑːf/ is one sound away from this word: