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title: "BIP39 Word #276: carbon — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/carbon/"
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updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #276 00100010011 

# carbon — BIP39 word #276

"**carbon**" is word #276 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [car](/bip39-word/car/) and [card](/bip39-word/card/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00100010011`, decimal index 275\. 

/ˈkɑːbən/  · _noun:_ a chemical element found in coal, diamonds and all living things 

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

## 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):

[pen](/bip39-word/pen/)[give](/bip39-word/give/)[act](/bip39-word/act/)[crash](/bip39-word/crash/)[clerk](/bip39-word/clerk/)[chapter](/bip39-word/chapter/)[call](/bip39-word/call/)[casino](/bip39-word/casino/)[carry](/bip39-word/carry/)[captain](/bip39-word/captain/)[car](/bip39-word/car/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x113

4-Letter Prefix

carb

## About "carbon" in BIP39

- "carbon" has 6 letters, but the first four, **"carb"**, already identify it, because **"car"** also begins [car](/bip39-word/car/), [card](/bip39-word/card/), [cargo](/bip39-word/cargo/), [carpet](/bip39-word/carpet/), [carry](/bip39-word/carry/) and [cart](/bip39-word/cart/).
- Its first letters also spell another BIP39 word, [car](/bip39-word/car/). Write "carbon" out in full: cut short, it turns into a different valid word.
- **"carb"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins carbone in the [French list](/french/), carbón in the [Spanish list](/spanish/) and carbono in the [Portuguese list](/portuguese/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #276 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) dosyta 

[French](/french/) branche 

[Italian](/italian/) buono 

[Japanese](/japanese/) おさえる 

[Korean](/korean/) 길이 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) bengala 

[Spanish](/spanish/) brillo 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Words sharing the first three letters "car":

[car](/bip39-word/car/)[card](/bip39-word/card/)[cargo](/bip39-word/cargo/)[carpet](/bip39-word/carpet/)[carry](/bip39-word/carry/)[cart](/bip39-word/cart/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "C"

[ #272 capable ](/bip39-word/capable/)[ #273 capital ](/bip39-word/capital/)[ #274 captain ](/bip39-word/captain/)[ #275 car ](/bip39-word/car/)[ #277 card ](/bip39-word/card/)[ #278 cargo ](/bip39-word/cargo/)[ #279 carpet ](/bip39-word/carpet/)[ #280 carry ](/bip39-word/carry/) 

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

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