stay — BIP39 word #1704
"stay" is word #1704 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between state and steak.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
11010100111,
decimal index 1703.
/steɪ/ · verb: to remain in a place or condition
Russian: оставаться
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
#1704 of 2048
Hex Index
0x6A7
4-Letter Prefix
stay
About "stay" in BIP39
- It takes all four letters to identify "stay": "sta" also begins 9 other words, among them stable, stadium, staff and stage.
- "stay" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #14 (word 12 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 #1704 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
One BIP39 word differs from "stay" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "stay" /steɪ/ is one sound away from these 3 words: