taste — BIP39 word #1778
"taste" is word #1778 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between task and tattoo.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
11011110001,
decimal index 1777.
/teɪst/ · noun: the flavor of food or drink, or a person's liking
Russian: вкус
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
#1778 of 2048
Hex Index
0x6F1
4-Letter Prefix
tast
About "taste" in BIP39
- "taste" has 5 letters, but the first four, "tast", already identify it, because "tas" also begins task.
- "tast" is unique only within the English list: it also begins tasto in the Italian list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
- "taste" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #18 (word 8 of 24). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words.
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Word #1778 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
One BIP39 word differs from "taste" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "taste" /teɪst/ is one sound away from these 2 words:
Words sharing the first three letters "tas":