BIP39 Words Starting with W (69 words)

The 69 BIP39 words that start with W run from #1970 wage to #2038 wrong in the English wordlist: indexes 1969 to 2037, or 11110110001 to 11111110101 in binary. That is 3.4% of the 2048 words, the 14th-largest of the 25 letter groups. Word length goes from 3 letters (way, web and 2 more) to 7 (warfare, warrior and 7 more).

16 three-letter beginnings are shared by two or more words; the largest is "win", with 7 words. The 49 words in these groups need their first four letters to be told apart, while 20 are identified by the first three. The short word win also begins longer ones, so a four-letter backup keeps it whole.

44 of the 69 words have look-alikes one letter away, such as wage and wave. Some words sound identical: wear and where (/weə/), write and right (/raɪt/). Read aloud, 140 pairs differ by a single sound, for example wage and wait. One spelling is shared with the French BIP39 list, at a different index: wagon. Ten of the words appear in the official BIP39 test vectors, among them warm and warrior.