swear — BIP39 word #1757
"swear" is word #1757 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between swarm and sweet.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
11011011100,
decimal index 1756.
/sweə/ · verb: to make a serious promise, or to use rude words
Russian: ругаться
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
#1757 of 2048
Hex Index
0x6DC
4-Letter Prefix
swea
About "swear" in BIP39
- "swear" has 5 letters, but the first four, "swea", already identify it, because "swe" also begins sweet.
Word #1757 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
One BIP39 word differs from "swear" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "swear" /sweə/ is one sound away from these 5 words:
Words sharing the first three letters "swe":