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title: "BIP39 Word #300: century — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/century/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #300 00100101011 

# century — BIP39 word #300

"**century**" is word #300 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [census](/bip39-word/census/) and [cereal](/bip39-word/cereal/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00100101011`, decimal index 299\. 

/ˈsɛnʧʊri/  · _noun:_ a period of one hundred years 

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

## 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):

[pistol](/bip39-word/pistol/)[grace](/bip39-word/grace/)[air](/bip39-word/air/)[cube](/bip39-word/cube/)[coin](/bip39-word/coin/)[cannon](/bip39-word/cannon/)[cherry](/bip39-word/cherry/)[caught](/bip39-word/caught/)[chalk](/bip39-word/chalk/)[cement](/bip39-word/cement/)[census](/bip39-word/census/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x12B

4-Letter Prefix

cent

## About "century" in BIP39

- "century" has 7 letters, but the first four, **"cent"**, already identify it, because **"cen"** also begins [census](/bip39-word/census/).
- **"cent"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins central in the [French list](/french/), centro in the [Spanish list](/spanish/), centesimo in the [Italian list](/italian/), centeio in the [Portuguese list](/portuguese/) and centrum in the [Czech list](/czech/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #300 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) dudek 

[French](/french/) burin 

[Italian](/italian/) cantina 

[Japanese](/japanese/) おもいで 

[Korean](/korean/) 남매 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) bispo 

[Spanish](/spanish/) buzón 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Words sharing the first three letters "cen":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "C"

[ #296 ceiling ](/bip39-word/ceiling/)[ #297 celery ](/bip39-word/celery/)[ #298 cement ](/bip39-word/cement/)[ #299 census ](/bip39-word/census/)[ #301 cereal ](/bip39-word/cereal/)[ #302 certain ](/bip39-word/certain/)[ #303 chair ](/bip39-word/chair/)[ #304 chalk ](/bip39-word/chalk/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [BIP39 Passphrase: How the 25th Word Creates a Hidden Wallet](/bip39-passphrase/)
- [Is My Seed Phrase Compromised? Signs and What to Do Next](/bip39-seed-phrase-compromise/)
- [BIP 32 Explained: Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets](/bip-32/)

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