BIP39 Words Starting with L (76 words)

The 76 BIP39 words that start with L run from #993 lab to #1068 lyrics in the English wordlist: indexes 992 to 1067, or 01111100000 to 10000101011 in binary. That is 3.7% of the 2048 words, the 13th-largest of the 25 letter groups. Word length goes from 3 letters (lab, law and 1 more) to 8 (language).

16 three-letter beginnings are shared by two or more words; the largest is "lea", with 4 words. The 38 words in these groups need their first four letters to be told apart, while 37 are identified by the first three, and one (lyrics) by the first two. The short words lab, law and leg also begin longer ones, so a four-letter backup keeps them whole.

33 of the 76 words have look-alikes one letter away, such as lab and law. Swapping two neighbouring letters turns later into alter. Read aloud, 74 pairs differ by a single sound, for example label and labor. Three spellings are shared with the French BIP39 list, at different indexes: label, lecture and loyal. Eleven of the words appear in the official BIP39 test vectors, among them ladder and lava.