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title: "BIP39 Word #309: charge — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/charge/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #309 00100110100 

# charge — BIP39 word #309

"**charge**" is word #309 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [chapter](/bip39-word/chapter/) and [chase](/bip39-word/chase/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00100110100`, decimal index 308\. 

/ʧɑːʤ/  · _verb:_ to ask a price for something, or to put electricity into a battery 

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

## 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):

[pledge](/bip39-word/pledge/)[grief](/bip39-word/grief/)[alley](/bip39-word/alley/)[custom](/bip39-word/custom/)[company](/bip39-word/company/)[card](/bip39-word/card/)[cause](/bip39-word/cause/)[chest](/bip39-word/chest/)[champion](/bip39-word/champion/)[chat](/bip39-word/chat/)[chase](/bip39-word/chase/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x134

4-Letter Prefix

char

## About "charge" in BIP39

- "charge" has 6 letters, but the first four, **"char"**, 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 [change](/bip39-word/change/).
- **"char"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins charbon in the [French list](/french/), charla in the [Spanish list](/spanish/), charme in the [Portuguese list](/portuguese/) and charita in the [Czech list](/czech/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #309 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) ekolog 

[French](/french/) cadeau 

[Italian](/italian/) carcassa 

[Japanese](/japanese/) おんがく 

[Korean](/korean/) 내일 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) bocado 

[Spanish](/spanish/) café 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

Read aloud, "charge" /ʧɑːʤ/ is one sound away from this word: 

[large /lɑːʤ/](/bip39-word/large/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "cha":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "C"

[ #305 champion ](/bip39-word/champion/)[ #306 change ](/bip39-word/change/)[ #307 chaos ](/bip39-word/chaos/)[ #308 chapter ](/bip39-word/chapter/)[ #310 chase ](/bip39-word/chase/)[ #311 chat ](/bip39-word/chat/)[ #312 cheap ](/bip39-word/cheap/)[ #313 check ](/bip39-word/check/) 

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

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