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Word #1753 11011011000

swallow

/ˈswɒləʊ/

Binary Representation

1
1
0
1
1
0
1
1
0
0
0

11-bit index: 11011011000 (decimal 1752)

Position

#1753 of 2048

Hex Index

0x6D8

4-Letter Prefix

swal

About "swallow" in BIP39

"swallow" is the #1753 word in the official BIP39 English mnemonic wordlist. It is encoded as the 11-bit binary value 11011011000 (decimal index 1752), placing it at the 86% mark of the full 2048-word list.

The 4-letter prefix "swal" uniquely identifies this word among all 2048 entries. With 7 characters, "swallow" is among the longer entries in the list, which reduces the chance of confusion with other words during manual seed phrase entry.

Near the end of the wordlist (index 1752), "swallow" is part of the "S" letter group with 250 entries total, positioned at #236 in that group. Words in the upper range of the list have binary representations with more leading 1s.

In a 12-word seed phrase, each word encodes 11 bits of entropy. The probability of "swallow" appearing in any specific position of a randomly generated phrase is 1 in 2048 (≈ 0.049%). A complete 24-word phrase encodes 256 bits of entropy, providing security equivalent to a key space of approximately 1.16 × 10⁷⁷ — far beyond the reach of brute-force attacks.

Word #1753 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Every official BIP39 wordlist has exactly 2048 entries, so index 1752 encodes the same 11-bit value (11011011000) in every language. A wallet configured for one of these languages would use this word instead of "swallow":

Czech uklonit
French sergent
Italian stabile
Japanese べんり
Korean 취직
Portuguese sedoso
Spanish sonrisa
Chinese (Traditional)
Chinese (Simplified)

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

One BIP39 word differs from "swallow" 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 "swa":

Reminder: the first 4 letters of every BIP39 word are unique across the whole list, so "swal" always identifies "swallow".

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