Word #2018 11111100001

wire — BIP39 word #2018

"wire" is word #2018 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between winter and wisdom. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 11111100001, decimal index 2017.

/ˈwaɪə/ · noun: a thin flexible metal thread used for fastening or carrying electricity

Russian: проволока

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

#2018 of 2048

Hex Index

0x7E1

4-Letter Prefix

wire

About "wire" in BIP39

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

Word #2018 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech znamenat
French vision
Italian vittima
Japanese れんけい
Korean 활용
Portuguese violeta
Spanish viudo

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

Read aloud, "wire" /ˈwaɪə/ is one sound away from these 2 words:

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