--- title: "BIP39 Word #260: call — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word" url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/call/" language: "en" updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00" --- Word #260 00100000011 # call — BIP39 word #260 "**call**" is word #260 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [cake](/bip39-word/cake/) and [calm](/bip39-word/calm/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00100000011`, decimal index 259\. /kɔːl/ · _verb:_ to shout to someone, or to telephone them [Russian](/ru/ "The BIP39 wordlist with Russian translations"): звонок ## 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): [parrot](/bip39-word/parrot/)[gather](/bip39-word/gather/)[about](/bip39-word/about/)[corn](/bip39-word/corn/)[chronic](/bip39-word/chronic/)[caught](/bip39-word/caught/)[carbon](/bip39-word/carbon/)[cannon](/bip39-word/cannon/)[can](/bip39-word/can/)[cage](/bip39-word/cage/)[cake](/bip39-word/cake/) Position Hex Index 0x103 4-Letter Prefix call ## About "call" in BIP39 - It takes all four letters to identify "call": **"cal"** also begins [calm](/bip39-word/calm/). - **"call"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins calle in the [Spanish list](/spanish/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses. - "call" appears in one of the 24 official English [test vectors](https://github.com/trezor/python-mnemonic/blob/master/vectors.json) of BIP39: vector #18 (word 5 of 24). Every official vector passes the [checksum checker](/bip39-checksum-checker/), and [How BIP39 works](/how-bip39-works/) shows how the entropy turns into such words. Official test vector #18 [panda](/bip39-word/panda/) [eyebrow](/bip39-word/eyebrow/) [bullet](/bip39-word/bullet/) [gorilla](/bip39-word/gorilla/) call [smoke](/bip39-word/smoke/) [muffin](/bip39-word/muffin/) [taste](/bip39-word/taste/) [mesh](/bip39-word/mesh/) [discover](/bip39-word/discover/) [soft](/bip39-word/soft/) [ostrich](/bip39-word/ostrich/) [alcohol](/bip39-word/alcohol/) [speed](/bip39-word/speed/) [nation](/bip39-word/nation/) [flash](/bip39-word/flash/) [devote](/bip39-word/devote/) [level](/bip39-word/level/) [hobby](/bip39-word/hobby/) [quick](/bip39-word/quick/) [inner](/bip39-word/inner/) [drive](/bip39-word/drive/) [ghost](/bip39-word/ghost/) [inside](/bip39-word/inside/) ## Word #260 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists [Czech](/czech/) domluvit [French](/french/) bondir [Italian](/italian/) brevetto [Japanese](/japanese/) おおや [Korean](/korean/) 기분 [Portuguese](/portuguese/) bastante [Spanish](/spanish/) bomba [Traditional Chinese](/chinese-traditional/) 隊 [Simplified Chinese](/chinese-simplified/) 队 ## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery 5 BIP39 words differ from "call" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand: [all](/bip39-word/all/)[ball](/bip39-word/ball/)[calm](/bip39-word/calm/)[fall](/bip39-word/fall/)[wall](/bip39-word/wall/) Read aloud, "call" /kɔːl/ is one sound away from these 8 words: [caught /kɔːt/](/bip39-word/caught/)[cause /kɔːz/](/bip39-word/cause/)[coil /kɔɪl/](/bip39-word/coil/)[cool /kuːl/](/bip39-word/cool/)[core /kɔː/](/bip39-word/core/)[corn /kɔːn/](/bip39-word/corn/)[course /kɔːs/](/bip39-word/course/)[crawl /krɔːl/](/bip39-word/crawl/) Words sharing the first three letters "cal": [calm](/bip39-word/calm/) ## More BIP39 Words Starting with "C" [ #256 cable ](/bip39-word/cable/)[ #257 cactus ](/bip39-word/cactus/)[ #258 cage ](/bip39-word/cage/)[ #259 cake ](/bip39-word/cake/)[ #261 calm ](/bip39-word/calm/)[ #262 camera ](/bip39-word/camera/)[ #263 camp ](/bip39-word/camp/)[ #264 can ](/bip39-word/can/) [View all words starting with "C" ](/bip39-words/c/) ## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides - [BIP85: Derive Many Seed Phrases From One Seed](/bip85/) - [How to View & Recover Bitcoin Wallet.dat Content](/how-to-view-and-recover-bitcoin-wallet-dat-content/) - [Bitcoin Private Key Format: WIF, Base58 and Hex Explained](/private-key-btc/) [ Full BIP39 Wordlist ](/)