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title: "BIP39 Word #62: amateur — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/amateur/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #62 00000111101 

# amateur — BIP39 word #62

"**amateur**" is word #62 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [always](/bip39-word/always/) and [amazing](/bip39-word/amazing/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00000111101`, decimal index 61\. 

/ˈæmətə/  · _noun:_ a person who does an activity for pleasure, not payment 

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

## Binary Representation

Five 1-bits and six 0-bits; 462 of the 2048 indexes have exactly five 1-bits.

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

[marble](/bip39-word/marble/)[element](/bip39-word/element/)[chicken](/bip39-word/chicken/)[bless](/bip39-word/bless/)[autumn](/bip39-word/autumn/)[admit](/bip39-word/admit/)[aisle](/bip39-word/aisle/)[allow](/bip39-word/allow/)[already](/bip39-word/already/)[among](/bip39-word/among/)[always](/bip39-word/always/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x03D

4-Letter Prefix

amat

## About "amateur" in BIP39

- "amateur" has 7 letters, but the first four, **"amat"**, already identify it, because **"ama"** also begins [amazing](/bip39-word/amazing/).
- The same spelling is in the [French BIP39 wordlist](/french/), but as word #89 (index 88), not #62\. A wallet set to French reads "amateur" as **00001011000** instead of **00000111101**, and decodes index 61 as "agile".

## Word #62 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) bezmoc 

[French](/french/) agile 

[Italian](/italian/) allodola 

[Japanese](/japanese/) いきもの 

[Korean](/korean/) 거울 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) aferir 

[Spanish](/spanish/) alambre 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Words sharing the first three letters "ama":

[amazing](/bip39-word/amazing/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "A"

[ #58 already ](/bip39-word/already/)[ #59 also ](/bip39-word/also/)[ #60 alter ](/bip39-word/alter/)[ #61 always ](/bip39-word/always/)[ #63 amazing ](/bip39-word/amazing/)[ #64 among ](/bip39-word/among/)[ #65 amount ](/bip39-word/amount/)[ #66 amused ](/bip39-word/amused/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [How to Store a Seed Phrase: Paper, Steel and Safe Locations](/store-a-seed-phrase/)
- [How to Restore a Wallet From a Seed Phrase: Step by Step](/restore-wallet-from-seed-phrase/)
- [xpub, ypub and zpub: Extended Public Keys Explained](/xpub-ypub-zpub/)

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