Word #2022 11111100101

witness — BIP39 word #2022

"witness" is word #2022 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between wish and wolf. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 11111100101, decimal index 2021.

/ˈwɪtnɪs/ · noun: a person who sees an event happen, or who testifies in court

Russian: свидетель

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

#2022 of 2048

Hex Index

0x7E5

4-Letter Prefix

witn

About "witness" in BIP39

  • "witness" has 7 letters, but the first three, "wit", 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 #2022 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech zoubek
French vitesse
Italian voce
Japanese れんぞく
Korean 회복
Portuguese visto
Spanish vivo

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

One BIP39 word differs from "witness" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:

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