Word #1739 11011001010
sun — BIP39 word #1739
"sun" is word #1739 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between summer and sunny.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
11011001010,
decimal index 1738.
/sʌn/ · noun: the star that gives light and heat to the earth
Russian: солнце
Binary Representation
Six 1-bits and five 0-bits; 462 of the 2048 indexes have exactly six 1-bits.
One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):
Position
#1739 of 2048
Hex Index
0x6CA
4-Letter Prefix
sun
About "sun" in BIP39
- All three letters of "sun" also begin longer words: sunny and sunset. So "sun" cannot be shortened, and a backup that keeps the first four letters of each word stores it as "sun" but sunny as "sunn".
- "sun" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #22 (word 9 of 12). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words.
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Word #1739 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
3 BIP39 words differ from "sun" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "sun" /sʌn/ is one sound away from these 7 words: