--- title: "BIP39 Word #338: clay — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word" url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/clay/" language: "en" updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00" --- Word #338 00101010001 # clay — BIP39 word #338 "**clay**" is word #338 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [claw](/bip39-word/claw/) and [clean](/bip39-word/clean/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00101010001`, decimal index 337\. /kleɪ/ · _noun:_ a heavy sticky earth that is shaped and baked to make pottery [Russian](/ru/ "The BIP39 wordlist with Russian translations"): глина ## 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): [pretty](/bip39-word/pretty/)[health](/bip39-word/health/)[any](/bip39-word/any/)[demand](/bip39-word/demand/)[captain](/bip39-word/captain/)[comfort](/bip39-word/comfort/)[choice](/bip39-word/choice/)[clinic](/bip39-word/clinic/)[click](/bip39-word/click/)[clerk](/bip39-word/clerk/)[claw](/bip39-word/claw/) Position Hex Index 0x151 4-Letter Prefix clay ## About "clay" in BIP39 - It takes all four letters to identify "clay": **"cla"** also begins [claim](/bip39-word/claim/), [clap](/bip39-word/clap/), [clarify](/bip39-word/clarify/) and [claw](/bip39-word/claw/). ## Word #338 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists [Czech](/czech/) fantazie [French](/french/) caribou [Italian](/italian/) cerume [Japanese](/japanese/) かがく [Korean](/korean/) 눈동자 [Portuguese](/portuguese/) bruxo [Spanish](/spanish/) capaz [Traditional Chinese](/chinese-traditional/) 鬥 [Simplified Chinese](/chinese-simplified/) 斗 ## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery 3 BIP39 words differ from "clay" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand: [clap](/bip39-word/clap/)[claw](/bip39-word/claw/)[play](/bip39-word/play/) Read aloud, "clay" /kleɪ/ is one sound away from this word: [claim /kleɪm/](/bip39-word/claim/) Words sharing the first three letters "cla": [claim](/bip39-word/claim/)[clap](/bip39-word/clap/)[clarify](/bip39-word/clarify/)[claw](/bip39-word/claw/) ## More BIP39 Words Starting with "C" [ #334 claim ](/bip39-word/claim/)[ #335 clap ](/bip39-word/clap/)[ #336 clarify ](/bip39-word/clarify/)[ #337 claw ](/bip39-word/claw/)[ #339 clean ](/bip39-word/clean/)[ #340 clerk ](/bip39-word/clerk/)[ #341 clever ](/bip39-word/clever/)[ #342 click ](/bip39-word/click/) [View all words starting with "C" ](/bip39-words/c/) ## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides - [Monero Seed Phrase: 25 Words, Polyseed and Private Keys](/seed-phrase-and-private-key-format-of-monero-guide/) - [BIP85: Derive Many Seed Phrases From One Seed](/bip85/) - [How to View & Recover Bitcoin Wallet.dat Content](/how-to-view-and-recover-bitcoin-wallet-dat-content/) [ Full BIP39 Wordlist ](/)