BIP39 Words Starting with P (132 words)

The 132 BIP39 words that start with P run from #1270 pact to #1401 pyramid in the English wordlist: indexes 1269 to 1400, or 10011110101 to 10101111000 in binary. That is 6.4% of the 2048 words, the 4th-largest of the 25 letter groups. Word length goes from 3 letters (pen, pet and 2 more) to 8 (physical, position and 5 more).

27 three-letter beginnings are shared by two or more words; the largest is "pro", with 13 words. The 96 words in these groups need their first four letters to be told apart, while 35 are identified by the first three, and one (pyramid) by the first two. The short words pen and pig also begin longer ones, so a four-letter backup keeps them whole.

49 of the 132 words have look-alikes one letter away, such as page and pave. Some words sound identical: pair and pear (/peə/), peace and piece (/piːs/). Read aloud, 83 pairs differ by a single sound, for example palm and park. Nine spellings are shared with the French BIP39 list, at different indexes: palace, panda, phrase and 6 more. 15 of the words appear in the official BIP39 test vectors, among them pact and panda.