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BIP39 Word list

OFFICIAL BIP39 WORD LIST (MNEMONIC) – IN ENGLISH (VERIFIED)

What is BIP39?

With the introduction of BIP39, the whole process of generating and accessing bitcoin and other cryptocurrency wallets was simplified. This was to simplify process of creating recovery seeds for your wallet and restoring it. BIP39 comes from Bitcoin Improvement Proposal no. 39.

With BIP39 recovery phrase (also called mnemonic phrase), user can backup and recover Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency wallets without the need to use complicated private keys. Instead wallet can by recovered using seed phrase made of natural language words. BIP39 allows user to use a set of words to access their cryptocurrency wallet instead of complicated private key. This set of words will be translated by wallet software to generate a deterministic wallet addresses. The wallet software uses algorithms to create a private key internally from your BIP39 words so you don’t have to. Read the full list of BIP39 compatible wallets.

Example of BIP39 mnemonic phrase with 12 words:

glory remain shrug expand feed they notice similar diagram acquire hour razor

The BIP39 protocol uses a list of 2048 carefully chosen English words. Although the lists in different languages exists, it is not recommended to use them because most wallets do not support other than English words. It is worth mentioning that, only 4 first letters are needed to identify each word from the list, because there are no similar words and combinations of first four letters are unique to each word. Check out BIP39 Seed Phrase Generator.

Read more about BIP39 recovery phrase.

It is recommended to use metal crypto wallet as a a durable backup for your BIP39 mnemonic seed phrase like Coinplate Alpha which is 100% stainless steel. All Coinplate products are 100% compatible with BIP39 recovery phrase.

Official BIP39 Word list (mnemonic) – in English,
verified in 2022

The set of 2048 words in BIP39 was set in 2013 and will not be altered in the foreseeable future, so you can be sure about your wallet backup for years. (table below)

Although there are BIP39 wordlists in languages other than English, it is strongly not recommended to use non-English words for wallet backups. It might make restoring the wallet difficult or impossible.

This list is numbered from 1 to 2048, the same as in the official BIP39 specification (Source). Please note that elsewhere you can quite often see the list numbered 0-2047, so be aware of that. Especially if your backup is just word numbers, not full words.

There is a similar list available – the SLIP39 Wordlist – this is used with backups created using Shamir’s Secret Sharing. Although the lists have some similarities and have some common words, they are completely different things meant for different purpose.

Secure your seed phrase with ultra durable stainless backup

You can also get the full Bip39 wordlist in pdf.

No.wordNo.wordNo.wordNo.word
1abandon513divorce1025length1537scale
2ability514dizzy1026lens1538scan
3able515doctor1027leopard1539scare
4about516document1028lesson1540scatter
5above517dog1029letter1541scene
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9absurd521donate1033library1545scissors
10abuse522donkey1034license1546scorpion
11access523donor1035life1547scout
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31adult543duck1055long1567sense
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