My friend has a coldcard and is in the process of moving funds to a new seed. When they generated a passphrase for this new wallet, they used only 4 words of a diceware list, and transferred some funds to it. Only afterwards did they find out that they really should have used 6 words. Since the 4-word wallet has a transaction history, would reusing any/most of those 4 words in the new 6-word wallet reduce entropy for a brute-force attack? (i.e. since the hacking algorithm would find the 4-word wallet quickly, would it then be more likely to search for 5+ word wallets containing those original 4 words?)
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