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title: "BIP39 Word #69: ancient — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/ancient/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #69 00001000100 

# ancient — BIP39 word #69

"**ancient**" is word #69 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [anchor](/bip39-word/anchor/) and [anger](/bip39-word/anger/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00001000100`, decimal index 68\. 

/ˈeɪnʃ(ə)nt/  · _adjective:_ belonging to the very distant past, very old 

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

## Binary Representation

Two 1-bits and nine 0-bits; 55 of the 2048 indexes have exactly two 1-bits.

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

[mass](/bip39-word/mass/)[embrace](/bip39-word/embrace/)[chuckle](/bip39-word/chuckle/)[blush](/bip39-word/blush/)[above](/bip39-word/above/)[arrive](/bip39-word/arrive/)[appear](/bip39-word/appear/)[another](/bip39-word/another/)[amount](/bip39-word/amount/)[angle](/bip39-word/angle/)[anger](/bip39-word/anger/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x044

4-Letter Prefix

anci

## About "ancient" in BIP39

- "ancient" has 7 letters, but the first four, **"anci"**, already identify it, because **"anc"** also begins [anchor](/bip39-word/anchor/).
- **"anci"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins ancien in the [French list](/french/) and anciano in the [Spanish list](/spanish/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #69 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) biograf 

[French](/french/) ailier 

[Italian](/italian/) alterno 

[Japanese](/japanese/) いこく 

[Korean](/korean/) 건조 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) agachar 

[Spanish](/spanish/) alejar 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Words sharing the first three letters "anc":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "A"

[ #65 amount ](/bip39-word/amount/)[ #66 amused ](/bip39-word/amused/)[ #67 analyst ](/bip39-word/analyst/)[ #68 anchor ](/bip39-word/anchor/)[ #70 anger ](/bip39-word/anger/)[ #71 angle ](/bip39-word/angle/)[ #72 angry ](/bip39-word/angry/)[ #73 animal ](/bip39-word/animal/) 

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

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