Word #1985 11111000000

way — BIP39 word #1985

"way" is word #1985 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between wave and wealth. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 11111000000, decimal index 1984.

/weɪ/ · noun: a method of doing something, or a route from one place to another

Russian: путь

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

#1985 of 2048

Hex Index

0x7C0

4-Letter Prefix

way

About "way" in BIP39

  • It takes all three letters to identify "way": "wa" also begins 15 other words, among them wage, wagon, wait and walk. Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.

Word #1985 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech zemina
French vendredi
Italian verruca
Japanese りけん
Korean 형태
Portuguese velhice
Spanish venus

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

3 BIP39 words differ from "way" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:

Read aloud, "way" /weɪ/ is one sound away from these 7 words:

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