wave — BIP39 word #1984
"wave" is word #1984 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between water and way.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
11110111111,
decimal index 1983.
/weɪv/ · noun: a moving ridge of water on the sea, or a hand gesture
Russian: волна
Binary Representation
A single 0-bit, which only ten other indexes share: lend, say, that, useful, winner, worth, year, youth, zero and zone.
One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):
Position
#1984 of 2048
Hex Index
0x7BF
4-Letter Prefix
wave
About "wave" in BIP39
- "wave" has 4 letters, but the first three, "wav", already identify it, because "wa" also begins 15 other words, among them wage, wagon, wait and walk. Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
- "wave" appears in three of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vectors #2 (word 5 of 12), #6 (words 5 and 13 of 18) and #10 (words 5, 13 and 21 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 #1984 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
5 BIP39 words differ from "wave" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "wave" /weɪv/ is one sound away from these 3 words: