Word #1845 11100110100
track — BIP39 word #1845
"track" is word #1845 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between toy and trade.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
11100110100,
decimal index 1844.
/træk/ · noun: a rough path, a rail line, or a mark left by something
Russian: след
Binary Representation
Six 1-bits and five 0-bits; 462 of the 2048 indexes have exactly six 1-bits.
One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):
Position
#1845 of 2048
Hex Index
0x734
4-Letter Prefix
trac
About "track" in BIP39
- "track" has 5 letters, but the first four, "trac", already identify it, because "tra" also begins 9 other words, among them trade, traffic, tragic and train.
- "trac" is unique only within the English list: it also begins traction in the French list, tractor in the Spanish list, trachea in the Italian list and tracejar in the Portuguese list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
Word #1845 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
4 BIP39 words differ from "track" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "track" /træk/ is one sound away from these 2 words: