---
title: "BIP39 Word #327: churn — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/churn/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #327 00101000110 

# churn — BIP39 word #327

"**churn**" is word #327 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [chunk](/bip39-word/chunk/) and [cigar](/bip39-word/cigar/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00101000110`, decimal index 326\. 

/ʧɜːn/  · _verb:_ to stir or shake something violently, or make butter from cream 

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

## 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):

[potato](/bip39-word/potato/)[hand](/bip39-word/hand/)[angle](/bip39-word/angle/)[decide](/bip39-word/decide/)[camp](/bip39-word/camp/)[coast](/bip39-word/coast/)[client](/bip39-word/client/)[clap](/bip39-word/clap/)[choose](/bip39-word/choose/)[chuckle](/bip39-word/chuckle/)[cigar](/bip39-word/cigar/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x146

4-Letter Prefix

chur

## About "churn" in BIP39

- "churn" has 5 letters, but the first four, **"chur"**, already identify it, because **"chu"** also begins [chuckle](/bip39-word/chuckle/) and [chunk](/bip39-word/chunk/).
- "churn" appears in one of the 24 official English [test vectors](https://github.com/trezor/python-mnemonic/blob/master/vectors.json) of BIP39: vector #19 (word 7 of 12). Every official vector passes the [checksum checker](/bip39-checksum-checker/), and [How BIP39 works](/how-bip39-works/) shows how the entropy turns into such words.

Official test vector #19

[cat](/bip39-word/cat/) [swing](/bip39-word/swing/) [flag](/bip39-word/flag/) [economy](/bip39-word/economy/) [stadium](/bip39-word/stadium/) [alone](/bip39-word/alone/) churn [speed](/bip39-word/speed/) [unique](/bip39-word/unique/) [patch](/bip39-word/patch/) [report](/bip39-word/report/) [train](/bip39-word/train/) 

## Word #327 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) evoluce 

[French](/french/) cantine 

[Italian](/italian/) cedibile 

[Japanese](/japanese/) かいてん 

[Korean](/korean/) 논문 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) branco 

[Spanish](/spanish/) campo 

[Traditional Chinese](/chinese-traditional/) 萬 

[Simplified Chinese](/chinese-simplified/) 万 

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Read aloud, "churn" /ʧɜːn/ is one sound away from these 3 words: 

[earn /ɜːn/](/bip39-word/earn/)[learn /lɜːn/](/bip39-word/learn/)[turn /tɜːn/](/bip39-word/turn/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "chu":

[chuckle](/bip39-word/chuckle/)[chunk](/bip39-word/chunk/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "C"

[ #323 choose ](/bip39-word/choose/)[ #324 chronic ](/bip39-word/chronic/)[ #325 chuckle ](/bip39-word/chuckle/)[ #326 chunk ](/bip39-word/chunk/)[ #328 cigar ](/bip39-word/cigar/)[ #329 cinnamon ](/bip39-word/cinnamon/)[ #330 circle ](/bip39-word/circle/)[ #331 citizen ](/bip39-word/citizen/) 

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

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