BIP39 Words Starting with N (41 words)

The 41 BIP39 words that start with N run from #1174 naive to #1214 nut in the English wordlist: indexes 1173 to 1213, or 10010010101 to 10010111101 in binary, so all of them begin with the bits 10010. That is 2.0% of the 2048 words, the 19th-largest of the 25 letter groups. Word length goes from 3 letters (net, now and nut) to 8 (negative).

Five three-letter beginnings are shared by two or more words; the largest is "not", with 4 words: notable, note, nothing and notice. The 12 words in these groups need their first four letters to be told apart, while 29 are identified by the first three. The short word net also begins longer ones, so a four-letter backup keeps it whole.

19 of the 41 words have look-alikes one letter away, such as nest and net or next; all pairs are listed below. Read aloud, 31 pairs differ by a single sound, for example near /nɪə/ and now /naʊ/ or deer /dɪə/. Four spellings are shared with the French BIP39 list, at different indexes: nation, nature, noble and notable. Four of the words appear in the official BIP39 test vectors: narrow, nation, nephew and north.