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title: "BIP39 Word #57: alpha — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/alpha/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #57 00000111000 

# alpha — BIP39 word #57

"**alpha**" is word #57 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [alone](/bip39-word/alone/) and [already](/bip39-word/already/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00000111000`, decimal index 56\. 

/ˈælfə/  · _noun:_ the first letter of the Greek alphabet 

[Russian](/ru/ "The BIP39 wordlist with Russian translations"): альфа 

## Binary Representation

Three 1-bits and eight 0-bits; 165 of the 2048 indexes have exactly three 1-bits.

One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):

[mandate](/bip39-word/mandate/)[either](/bip39-word/either/)[check](/bip39-word/check/)[blade](/bip39-word/blade/)[audit](/bip39-word/audit/)[adapt](/bip39-word/adapt/)[agree](/bip39-word/agree/)[alcohol](/bip39-word/alcohol/)[always](/bip39-word/always/)[also](/bip39-word/also/)[already](/bip39-word/already/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x038

4-Letter Prefix

alph

## About "alpha" in BIP39

- "alpha" has 5 letters, but the first three, **"alp"**, already identify it, because **"al"** also begins 14 other words, among them [alarm](/bip39-word/alarm/), [album](/bip39-word/album/), [alcohol](/bip39-word/alcohol/) and [alert](/bip39-word/alert/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.

## Word #57 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) beran 

[French](/french/) affiche 

[Italian](/italian/) alibi 

[Japanese](/japanese/) いおん 

[Korean](/korean/) 개성 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) adubo 

[Spanish](/spanish/) aislar 

[Traditional Chinese](/chinese-traditional/) 行 

[Simplified Chinese](/chinese-simplified/) 行 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "A"

[ #53 alley ](/bip39-word/alley/)[ #54 allow ](/bip39-word/allow/)[ #55 almost ](/bip39-word/almost/)[ #56 alone ](/bip39-word/alone/)[ #58 already ](/bip39-word/already/)[ #59 also ](/bip39-word/also/)[ #60 alter ](/bip39-word/alter/)[ #61 always ](/bip39-word/always/) 

[View all words starting with "A" ](/bip39-words/a/) 

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [Bitcoin Private Key Format: WIF, Base58 and Hex Explained](/private-key-btc/)
- [How to Encrypt a Seed Phrase: AES, XOR and Steganography](/seed-phrase-encrypting-with-aes-xor-and-steganography/)
- [Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP): Process and Deployed BIP List](/bitcoin-improvement-proposal/)

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