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title: "BIP39 Word #315: chef — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/chef/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #315 00100111010 

# chef — BIP39 word #315

"**chef**" is word #315 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [cheese](/bip39-word/cheese/) and [cherry](/bip39-word/cherry/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00100111010`, decimal index 314\. 

/ʃɛf/  · _noun:_ a professional cook, especially the head cook in a restaurant 

[Russian](/ru/ "The BIP39 wordlist with Russian translations"): шеф-повар 

## 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):

[point](/bip39-word/point/)[guard](/bip39-word/guard/)[also](/bip39-word/also/)[dance](/bip39-word/dance/)[consider](/bip39-word/consider/)[cash](/bip39-word/cash/)[census](/bip39-word/census/)[chaos](/bip39-word/chaos/)[chief](/bip39-word/chief/)[check](/bip39-word/check/)[cherry](/bip39-word/cherry/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x13A

4-Letter Prefix

chef

## About "chef" in BIP39

- It takes all four letters to identify "chef": **"che"** also begins [cheap](/bip39-word/cheap/), [check](/bip39-word/check/), [cheese](/bip39-word/cheese/), [cherry](/bip39-word/cherry/) and [chest](/bip39-word/chest/).
- **"chef"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins chefe in the [Portuguese list](/portuguese/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #315 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) emoce 

[French](/french/) calepin 

[Italian](/italian/) casaccio 

[Japanese](/japanese/) おんどけい 

[Korean](/korean/) 냉방 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) bolha 

[Spanish](/spanish/) calamar 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

Read aloud, "chef" /ʃɛf/ is one sound away from these 2 words: 

[shed /ʃɛd/](/bip39-word/shed/)[shell /ʃɛl/](/bip39-word/shell/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "che":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "C"

[ #311 chat ](/bip39-word/chat/)[ #312 cheap ](/bip39-word/cheap/)[ #313 check ](/bip39-word/check/)[ #314 cheese ](/bip39-word/cheese/)[ #316 cherry ](/bip39-word/cherry/)[ #317 chest ](/bip39-word/chest/)[ #318 chicken ](/bip39-word/chicken/)[ #319 chief ](/bip39-word/chief/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [Bitcoin Core Seed Phrase: Why There Is None and How to Back Up](/bitcoin-core-seed-phrase-backup-guide/)
- [BIP38 Encrypted Private Keys: 6P Format and How to Decrypt](/bip38/)
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