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title: "BIP39 Word #306: change — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/change/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #306 00100110001 

# change — BIP39 word #306

"**change**" is word #306 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [champion](/bip39-word/champion/) and [chaos](/bip39-word/chaos/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00100110001`, decimal index 305\. 

/ʧeɪnʤ/  · _verb:_ to make or become different 

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

## 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):

[plate](/bip39-word/plate/)[great](/bip39-word/great/)[alert](/bip39-word/alert/)[curtain](/bip39-word/curtain/)[comfort](/bip39-word/comfort/)[captain](/bip39-word/captain/)[category](/bip39-word/category/)[cheese](/bip39-word/cheese/)[chase](/bip39-word/chase/)[chapter](/bip39-word/chapter/)[champion](/bip39-word/champion/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x131

4-Letter Prefix

chan

## About "change" in BIP39

- "change" has 6 letters, but the first four, **"chan"**, already identify it, because **"cha"** also begins 8 other words, among them [chair](/bip39-word/chair/), [chalk](/bip39-word/chalk/), [champion](/bip39-word/champion/) and [chaos](/bip39-word/chaos/).
- **"chan"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins chance in the [French list](/french/) and chancla in the [Spanish list](/spanish/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #306 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) dvojice 

[French](/french/) cabanon 

[Italian](/italian/) capra 

[Japanese](/japanese/) およぼす 

[Korean](/korean/) 낱말 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) bloquear 

[Spanish](/spanish/) cadáver 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

Read aloud, "change" /ʧeɪnʤ/ is one sound away from this word: 

[range /reɪnʤ/](/bip39-word/range/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "cha":

[chair](/bip39-word/chair/)[chalk](/bip39-word/chalk/)[champion](/bip39-word/champion/)[chaos](/bip39-word/chaos/)[chapter](/bip39-word/chapter/)[charge](/bip39-word/charge/)[chase](/bip39-word/chase/)[chat](/bip39-word/chat/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "C"

[ #302 certain ](/bip39-word/certain/)[ #303 chair ](/bip39-word/chair/)[ #304 chalk ](/bip39-word/chalk/)[ #305 champion ](/bip39-word/champion/)[ #307 chaos ](/bip39-word/chaos/)[ #308 chapter ](/bip39-word/chapter/)[ #309 charge ](/bip39-word/charge/)[ #310 chase ](/bip39-word/chase/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [Seed Phrase Examples: 12, 18 and 24 BIP39 Mnemonic Phrases](/mnemonic-words-examples-for-crypto-security-bip39/)
- [How to Protect Your Crypto Wallet from Phishing](/protect-crypto-wallet-from-phishing/)
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