swing — BIP39 word #1761
"swing" is word #1761 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between swim and switch.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
11011100000,
decimal index 1760.
/swɪŋ/ · verb: to move back and forth or from side to side while hanging
Russian: качели
Binary Representation
Five 1-bits and six 0-bits; 462 of the 2048 indexes have exactly five 1-bits.
One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):
Position
#1761 of 2048
Hex Index
0x6E0
4-Letter Prefix
swin
About "swing" in BIP39
- "swing" has 5 letters, but the first four, "swin", already identify it, because "swi" also begins swift, swim and switch.
- "swing" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #19 (word 2 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 #1761 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
3 BIP39 words differ from "swing" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "swing" /swɪŋ/ is one sound away from these 2 words: