Word #1775 11011101110

tape — BIP39 word #1775

"tape" is word #1775 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between tank and target. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 11011101110, decimal index 1774.

/teɪp/ · noun: a long narrow strip of sticky material, or a magnetic recording strip

Russian: лента

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

#1775 of 2048

Hex Index

0x6EE

4-Letter Prefix

tape

About "tape" in BIP39

  • "tape" has 4 letters, but the first three, "tap", already identify it, because "ta" also begins 12 other words, among them table, tackle, tag and tail. Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
  • "tape" is unique only within the English list: it also begins tapete in the Spanish list and tapeta in the Czech list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

Word #1775 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech usoudit
French sismique
Italian strozzare
Japanese ほしょう
Korean 컴퓨터
Portuguese silhueta
Spanish suplir

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

One BIP39 word differs from "tape" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:

Read aloud, "tape" /teɪp/ is one sound away from these 3 words:

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