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So it surprised me when Electrum generated some seed words that had more than one possibilities when writing down word (the words were GROUp - GROUnd and COMMit - COMMon.

Now I understand that Electrum seed is not BIP39 compatible but still it can lead to confusion and some people can get confused if they store seed in shortened format in belief they can restore wallet 100% accurately.
When you store words in shorten format, the possibility of you losing your wallet is high because some words that you shorten will have the same alphabets like the ones you mentioned above and more. It's good that you copy the words exactly the way they are when storing them to avoid lostloss of coins because any missing word will deny you access to your wallet, only if you go extra miles to brute force the word.
Original archived Re: How safe it is to use 4 letter shortened words?
Scraped on 26/04/2025, 08:28:22 UTC
So it surprised me when Electrum generated some seed words that had more than one possibilities when writing down word (the words were GROUp - GROUnd and COMMit - COMMon.

Now I understand that Electrum seed is not BIP39 compatible but still it can lead to confusion and some people can get confused if they store seed in shortened format in belief they can restore wallet 100% accurately.
When you store words in shorten format, the possibility of you losing your wallet is high because some words that you shorten will have the same alphabets like the ones you mentioned above and more. It's good that you copy the words exactly the way they are when storing them to avoid lost of coins because any missing word will deny you access to your wallet, only if you go extra miles to brute force the word.