Word #1982 11110111101

waste — BIP39 word #1982

"waste" is word #1982 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between wasp and water. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 11110111101, decimal index 1981.

/weɪst/ · noun: careless use of something, or unwanted material that is thrown away

Russian: отходы

Binary Representation

Nine 1-bits and two 0-bits; 55 of the 2048 indexes have exactly nine 1-bits.

One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):

Position

#1982 of 2048

Hex Index

0x7BD

4-Letter Prefix

wast

About "waste" in BIP39

  • "waste" has 5 letters, but the first four, "wast", already identify it, because "was" also begins wash and wasp.

Word #1982 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech zdymadlo
French véhicule
Italian vergogna
Japanese りきせつ
Korean 형수
Portuguese vegetar
Spanish vengar

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

Read aloud, "waste" /weɪst/ is one sound away from these 2 words:

Words sharing the first three letters "was":

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