Word #2002 11111010001
when — BIP39 word #2002
"when" is word #2002 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between wheel and where.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
11111010001,
decimal index 2001.
/wɛn/ · adverb: at what time, or at the time that
Russian: когда
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
#2002 of 2048
Hex Index
0x7D1
4-Letter Prefix
when
About "when" in BIP39
- It takes all four letters to identify "when": "whe" also begins wheat, wheel and where.
- "when" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #8 (word 18 of 18). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words. As the last word of vector #8, its final 6 bits, 010001, are the checksum of the 18-word phrase.
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Word #2002 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
2 BIP39 words differ from "when" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "when" /wɛn/ is one sound away from these 7 words: