BIP39 Words Starting with Q (8 words)

The 8 BIP39 words that start with Q run from #1402 quality to #1409 quote in the English wordlist: indexes 1401 to 1408, or 10101111001 to 10110000000 in binary, so all of them begin with the bits 101. That is 0.4% of the 2048 words, the 23rd-largest of the 25 letter groups. In list order they are quality, quantum, quarter, question, quick, quit, quiz and quote, from 4 to 8 letters long.

Two three-letter beginnings are shared by two or more words; the largest, with 3 words each, are "qua" (quality, quantum and quarter) and "qui" (quick, quit and quiz). The 6 words in these groups need their first four letters to be told apart, while 2 are identified by the first three.

Two of the 8 words have look-alikes one letter away: quit (quiz and suit). Read aloud, 7 pairs differ by a single sound, for example quick /kwɪk/ and quit /kwɪt/, quiz /kwɪz/ or click /klɪk/. One spelling is shared with the French BIP39 list, at a different index: question. One of the words appears in the official BIP39 test vectors: quick (vector #18).