BIP39 Words Starting with H (64 words)

The 64 BIP39 words that start with H run from #834 habit to #897 hybrid in the English wordlist: indexes 833 to 896, or 01101000001 to 01110000000 in binary, so all of them begin with the bits 011. That is 3.1% of the 2048 words, the 15th-largest of the 25 letter groups. Word length goes from 3 letters (hat, hen, hip and 1 more) to 8 (hedgehog and hospital).

Ten three-letter beginnings are shared by two or more words; the largest, with 4 words each, are "har", "hea" and "hol". The 31 words in these groups need their first four letters to be told apart, while 32 are identified by the first three, and one (hybrid) by the first two.

26 of the 64 words have look-alikes one letter away, such as hand and hard or hint and hunt; all pairs are listed below. Read aloud, 84 pairs differ by a single sound, for example hair and high or pear. One spelling is shared with the French BIP39 list, at a different index: humble. Eight of the words appear in the official BIP39 test vectors, among them hair, hamster and happy.