Word #1961 11110101000

vital — BIP39 word #1961

"vital" is word #1961 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between visual and vivid. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 11110101000, decimal index 1960.

/ˈvaɪtl/ · adjective: absolutely necessary, or full of energy

Russian: жизненно важный

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):

insect relax steak topic wonder valve warfare village void vocal vivid

Position

#1961 of 2048

Hex Index

0x7A8

4-Letter Prefix

vita

About "vital" in BIP39

"vital" has 5 letters, but the first three, "vit", already identify it, because "vi" also begins 15 other words, among them viable, vibrant, vicious and victory. Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
The same spelling is in the French BIP39 wordlist, but as word #2021 (index 2020), not #1961. A wallet set to French reads "vital" as 11111100100 instead of 11110101000, and decodes index 1960 as "vacarme".
"vita" is unique only within the English list: it also begins vitamina in the Spanish list, vita in the Italian list and vitalita in the Czech list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.