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title: "BIP39 Word #296: ceiling — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/ceiling/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #296 00100100111 

# ceiling — BIP39 word #296

"**ceiling**" is word #296 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [cave](/bip39-word/cave/) and [celery](/bip39-word/celery/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00100100111`, decimal index 295\. 

/ˈsiːlɪŋ/  · _noun:_ the upper inside surface of a room 

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

## 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):

[pilot](/bip39-word/pilot/)[gossip](/bip39-word/gossip/)[agent](/bip39-word/agent/)[crunch](/bip39-word/crunch/)[coconut](/bip39-word/coconut/)[can](/bip39-word/can/)[cheap](/bip39-word/cheap/)[chalk](/bip39-word/chalk/)[caught](/bip39-word/caught/)[caution](/bip39-word/caution/)[cave](/bip39-word/cave/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x127

4-Letter Prefix

ceil

## About "ceiling" in BIP39

- "ceiling" has 7 letters, but the first three, **"cei"**, already identify it, because **"ce"** also begins [celery](/bip39-word/celery/), [cement](/bip39-word/cement/), [census](/bip39-word/census/), [century](/bip39-word/century/), [cereal](/bip39-word/cereal/) and [certain](/bip39-word/certain/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.

## Word #296 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) drtit 

[French](/french/) buffle 

[Italian](/italian/) candela 

[Japanese](/japanese/) おどろかす 

[Korean](/korean/) 날씨 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) bipolar 

[Spanish](/spanish/) burla 

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

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "C"

[ #292 caught ](/bip39-word/caught/)[ #293 cause ](/bip39-word/cause/)[ #294 caution ](/bip39-word/caution/)[ #295 cave ](/bip39-word/cave/)[ #297 celery ](/bip39-word/celery/)[ #298 cement ](/bip39-word/cement/)[ #299 census ](/bip39-word/census/)[ #300 century ](/bip39-word/century/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [How to Generate a BIP39 Seed Phrase with Dice, Step by Step](/seed-phrase-with-dice/)
- [Derivation Path Explained: What m/44'/0'/0'/0/0 Means](/derivation-path/)
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