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title: "BIP39 Word #314: cheese — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/cheese/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #314 00100111001 

# cheese — BIP39 word #314

"**cheese**" is word #314 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [check](/bip39-word/check/) and [chef](/bip39-word/chef/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00100111001`, decimal index 313\. 

/ʧiːz/  · _noun:_ a solid food made from pressed milk curds 

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

## 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):

[poet](/bip39-word/poet/)[grunt](/bip39-word/grunt/)[already](/bip39-word/already/)[damp](/bip39-word/damp/)[connect](/bip39-word/connect/)[case](/bip39-word/case/)[cement](/bip39-word/cement/)[change](/bip39-word/change/)[chicken](/bip39-word/chicken/)[cherry](/bip39-word/cherry/)[check](/bip39-word/check/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x139

4-Letter Prefix

chee

## About "cheese" in BIP39

- "cheese" has 6 letters, but the first four, **"chee"**, already identify it, because **"che"** also begins [cheap](/bip39-word/cheap/), [check](/bip39-word/check/), [chef](/bip39-word/chef/), [cherry](/bip39-word/cherry/) and [chest](/bip39-word/chest/).

## Word #314 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) emise 

[French](/french/) calculer 

[Italian](/italian/) cartolina 

[Japanese](/japanese/) おんちゅう 

[Korean](/korean/) 냉면 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) boletim 

[Spanish](/spanish/) cal 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Read aloud, "cheese" /ʧiːz/ is one sound away from these 3 words: 

[cheap /ʧiːp/](/bip39-word/cheap/)[chief /ʧiːf/](/bip39-word/chief/)[choose /ʧuːz/](/bip39-word/choose/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "che":

[cheap](/bip39-word/cheap/)[check](/bip39-word/check/)[chef](/bip39-word/chef/)[cherry](/bip39-word/cherry/)[chest](/bip39-word/chest/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "C"

[ #310 chase ](/bip39-word/chase/)[ #311 chat ](/bip39-word/chat/)[ #312 cheap ](/bip39-word/cheap/)[ #313 check ](/bip39-word/check/)[ #315 chef ](/bip39-word/chef/)[ #316 cherry ](/bip39-word/cherry/)[ #317 chest ](/bip39-word/chest/)[ #318 chicken ](/bip39-word/chicken/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [Why You Should Never Create Your Own Seed Phrase](/why-you-should-never-create-your-own-seed-phrase/)
- [12 vs 24 Word Seed Phrase: Which Is More Secure?](/12-vs-24-word-seed-phrase/)
- [BIP 157 Client-Side Block Filtering: Compact Filters Explained](/bip-157-client-side-block-filtering/)

[ Full BIP39 Wordlist ](/)