wear — BIP39 word #1988
"wear" is word #1988 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between weapon and weasel.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
11111000011,
decimal index 1987.
/weə/ · verb: to have clothing or jewelry on your body
Russian: носить
Binary Representation
Seven 1-bits and four 0-bits; 330 of the 2048 indexes have exactly seven 1-bits.
One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):
Position
#1988 of 2048
Hex Index
0x7C3
4-Letter Prefix
wear
About "wear" in BIP39
Word #1988 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
"wear" sounds exactly like where: both are transcribed /weə/. When a phrase is read aloud or dictated, spell this word out.
4 BIP39 words differ from "wear" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "wear" /weə/ is one sound away from these 9 words: