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title: "BIP39 Word #319: chief — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/chief/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #319 00100111110 

# chief — BIP39 word #319

"**chief**" is word #319 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [chicken](/bip39-word/chicken/) and [child](/bip39-word/child/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00100111110`, decimal index 318\. 

/ʧiːf/  · _noun:_ the leader or head of a group or organization 

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

## Binary Representation

Six 1-bits and five 0-bits; 462 of the 2048 indexes have exactly six 1-bits.

One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):

[pond](/bip39-word/pond/)[guitar](/bip39-word/guitar/)[amazing](/bip39-word/amazing/)[daughter](/bip39-word/daughter/)[cool](/bip39-word/cool/)[cat](/bip39-word/cat/)[chair](/bip39-word/chair/)[chat](/bip39-word/chat/)[chef](/bip39-word/chef/)[chest](/bip39-word/chest/)[child](/bip39-word/child/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x13E

4-Letter Prefix

chie

## About "chief" in BIP39

- "chief" has 5 letters, but the first four, **"chie"**, already identify it, because **"chi"** also begins [chicken](/bip39-word/chicken/), [child](/bip39-word/child/) and [chimney](/bip39-word/chimney/).
- **"chie"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins chien in the [French list](/french/) and chiedere in the [Italian list](/italian/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #319 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) epopej 

[French](/french/) calvaire 

[Italian](/italian/) cassone 

[Japanese](/japanese/) がいけん 

[Korean](/korean/) 노동 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) boneco 

[Spanish](/spanish/) calle 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

Read aloud, "chief" /ʧiːf/ is one sound away from these 4 words: 

[beef /biːf/](/bip39-word/beef/)[cheap /ʧiːp/](/bip39-word/cheap/)[cheese /ʧiːz/](/bip39-word/cheese/)[leaf /liːf/](/bip39-word/leaf/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "chi":

[chicken](/bip39-word/chicken/)[child](/bip39-word/child/)[chimney](/bip39-word/chimney/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "C"

[ #315 chef ](/bip39-word/chef/)[ #316 cherry ](/bip39-word/cherry/)[ #317 chest ](/bip39-word/chest/)[ #318 chicken ](/bip39-word/chicken/)[ #320 child ](/bip39-word/child/)[ #321 chimney ](/bip39-word/chimney/)[ #322 choice ](/bip39-word/choice/)[ #323 choose ](/bip39-word/choose/) 

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

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- [Test Your Wallet Backup: A Self-Audit of Your Seed Phrase](/hack-own-crypto-wallet/)
- [EVM Address Format Explained: Structure & Usage](/format-evm-addresses/)
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