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title: "BIP39 Word #271: canyon — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/canyon/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #271 00100001110 

# canyon — BIP39 word #271

"**canyon**" is word #271 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [canvas](/bip39-word/canvas/) and [capable](/bip39-word/capable/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00100001110`, decimal index 270\. 

/ˈkænjən/  · _noun:_ a deep narrow valley with steep sides, often with a river 

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

## Binary Representation

Four 1-bits and seven 0-bits; 330 of the 2048 indexes have exactly four 1-bits.

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

[peace](/bip39-word/peace/)[gift](/bip39-word/gift/)[achieve](/bip39-word/achieve/)[crack](/bip39-word/crack/)[clap](/bip39-word/clap/)[chair](/bip39-word/chair/)[cat](/bip39-word/cat/)[camp](/bip39-word/camp/)[candy](/bip39-word/candy/)[canoe](/bip39-word/canoe/)[capable](/bip39-word/capable/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x10E

4-Letter Prefix

cany

## About "canyon" in BIP39

- "canyon" has 6 letters, but the first four, **"cany"**, already identify it, because **"can"** also begins 7 other words, among them [can](/bip39-word/can/), [canal](/bip39-word/canal/), [cancel](/bip39-word/cancel/) and [candy](/bip39-word/candy/).
- Its first letters also spell another BIP39 word, [can](/bip39-word/can/). Write "canyon" out in full: cut short, it turns into a different valid word.

## Word #271 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) dort 

[French](/french/) bouquin 

[Italian](/italian/) buca 

[Japanese](/japanese/) おくる 

[Korean](/korean/) 기침 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) beldade 

[Spanish](/spanish/) bozal 

[Traditional Chinese](/chinese-traditional/) 百 

[Simplified Chinese](/chinese-simplified/) 百 

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

 One BIP39 word differs from "canyon" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand: 

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

Words sharing the first three letters "can":

[can](/bip39-word/can/)[canal](/bip39-word/canal/)[cancel](/bip39-word/cancel/)[candy](/bip39-word/candy/)[cannon](/bip39-word/cannon/)[canoe](/bip39-word/canoe/)[canvas](/bip39-word/canvas/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "C"

[ #267 candy ](/bip39-word/candy/)[ #268 cannon ](/bip39-word/cannon/)[ #269 canoe ](/bip39-word/canoe/)[ #270 canvas ](/bip39-word/canvas/)[ #272 capable ](/bip39-word/capable/)[ #273 capital ](/bip39-word/capital/)[ #274 captain ](/bip39-word/captain/)[ #275 car ](/bip39-word/car/) 

[View all words starting with "C" ](/bip39-words/c/) 

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [BIP 44 – Multi-Account Hierarchy for Deterministic Wallets](/bip-44-multi-account-hierarchy-for-deterministic-wallets/)
- [Electrum Seed vs BIP39: Why Other Wallets Reject It](/electrum-seed-vs-bip39/)
- [Cold Sharding: Splitting a Private Key Into Offline Shamir Shares](/cold-sharding-method-private-key-storage-strategy/)

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