Word #1752 11011010111

sustain — BIP39 word #1752

"sustain" is word #1752 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between suspect and swallow. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 11011010111, decimal index 1751.

/səsˈteɪn/ · verb: to keep something going over time, or to suffer an injury

Russian: поддерживать

Binary Representation

Eight 1-bits and three 0-bits; 165 of the 2048 indexes have exactly eight 1-bits.

One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):

Position

#1752 of 2048

Hex Index

0x6D7

4-Letter Prefix

sust

About "sustain" in BIP39

  • "sustain" has 7 letters, but the first four, "sust", already identify it, because "sus" also begins suspect.
  • "sust" is unique only within the English list: it also begins susto in the Spanish list and sustento in the Portuguese list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
  • "sustain" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #20 (word 14 of 18). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words.
Official test vector #20

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Word #1752 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech uklidnit
French serein
Italian srotolato
Japanese へんたい
Korean 취업
Portuguese sediado
Spanish sonoro

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