BIP39 Words Starting with E (100 words)

The 100 BIP39 words that start with E run from #552 eager to #651 eyebrow in the English wordlist: indexes 551 to 650, or 01000100111 to 01010001010 in binary. That is 4.9% of the 2048 words, the 11th-largest of the 25 letter groups. Word length goes from 3 letters (egg, end and 2 more) to 8 (electric, elephant and 5 more).

27 three-letter beginnings are shared by two or more words; the largest is "exp", with 6 words. The 71 words in these groups need their first four letters to be told apart, while 26 are identified by the first three, and 3 (effort, egg and episode) by the first two. The short words end, era and eye also begin longer ones, so a four-letter backup keeps them whole.

15 of the 100 words have look-alikes one letter away, such as east and easy. Read aloud, 47 pairs differ by a single sound, for example eager and eagle. Four spellings are shared with the French BIP39 list, at different indexes: effort, essence, exact and 1 more. Ten of the words appear in the official BIP39 test vectors, among them ecology and economy.