Word #1873 11101010000
tube — BIP39 word #1873
"tube" is word #1873 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between try and tuition.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
11101010000,
decimal index 1872.
/tjuːb/ · noun: a long hollow pipe or cylinder for liquids or gases
Russian: трубка
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
#1873 of 2048
Hex Index
0x750
4-Letter Prefix
tube
About "tube" in BIP39
- "tube" has 4 letters, but the first three, "tub", already identify it, because "tu" also begins 7 other words, among them tuition, tumble, tuna and tunnel. Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
- "tube" is unique only within the English list: it also begins tubería in the Spanish list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
Word #1873 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
One BIP39 word differs from "tube" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand: