BIP39 Words Starting with V (46 words)

The 46 BIP39 words that start with V run from #1924 vacant to #1969 voyage in the English wordlist: indexes 1923 to 1968, or 11110000011 to 11110110000 in binary, so all of them begin with the bits 11110. That is 2.2% of the 2048 words, the 18th-largest of the 25 letter groups. Word length goes from 3 letters (van) to 7 (various, vehicle, venture and 9 more).

Ten three-letter beginnings are shared by two or more words; the largest is "ver", with 4 words. The 25 words in these groups need their first four letters to be told apart, while 21 are identified by the first three. The short word van also begins longer ones, so a four-letter backup keeps it whole.

Nine of the 46 words have look-alikes one letter away, such as verb and very or valley and alley; all pairs are listed below. Read aloud, 14 pairs differ by a single sound, for example valley and valve or rally. Seven spellings are shared with the French BIP39 list, at different indexes: vague, valve, village, virus and 3 more. Five of the words appear in the official BIP39 test vectors, among them valve, vessel and void.