Word #1999 11111001110
what — BIP39 word #1999
"what" is word #1999 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between whale and wheat.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
11111001110,
decimal index 1998.
/wɒt/ · pronoun: used to ask about a thing, or to mean the thing that
Russian: что
Binary Representation
Eight 1-bits and three 0-bits; 165 of the 2048 indexes have exactly eight 1-bits.
One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):
Position
#1999 of 2048
Hex Index
0x7CE
4-Letter Prefix
what
About "what" in BIP39
- It takes all four letters to identify "what": "wha" also begins whale.
Word #1999 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
4 BIP39 words differ from "what" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "what" /wɒt/ is one sound away from these 4 words:
Words sharing the first three letters "wha":