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Board Electrum
Merits 8 from 4 users
Re: How safe it is to use 4 letter shortened words?
by
nc50lc
on 27/04/2025, 04:48:34 UTC
⭐ Merited by pooya87 (4) ,ABCbits (2) ,ovcijisir (1) ,hosemary (1)
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.
In that case, when restoring to Electrum, pay attention to the suggested word's highlight:
  • If it's highlighted in yellow like this: commit, it belongs to Electrum's old wordlist which isn't used to generate new Electrum seed phrase or in BIP39.
  • If there's no highlight, it belongs to BIP39 wordlist which is the same wordlist used by Electrum by default.

E.g.: