Word #2008 11111010111

wife — BIP39 word #2008

"wife" is word #2008 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between width and wild. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 11111010111, decimal index 2007.

/waɪf/ · noun: the woman that someone is married to

Russian: жена

Binary Representation

Nine 1-bits and two 0-bits; 55 of the 2048 indexes have exactly nine 1-bits.

One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):

Position

#2008 of 2048

Hex Index

0x7D7

4-Letter Prefix

wife

About "wife" in BIP39

  • "wife" has 4 letters, but the first three, "wif", already identify it, because "wi" also begins 16 other words, among them wide, width, wild and will. Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.

Word #2008 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech zmar
French vilain
Italian virgola
Japanese るりがわら
Korean 확장
Portuguese vidraria
Spanish vino

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

Read aloud, "wife" /waɪf/ is one sound away from this word:

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