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title: "BIP39 Word #340: clerk — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/clerk/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #340 00101010011 

# clerk — BIP39 word #340

"**clerk**" is word #340 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [clean](/bip39-word/clean/) and [clever](/bip39-word/clever/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00101010011`, decimal index 339\. 

/klɑːk/  · _noun:_ an office worker who keeps records or handles accounts 

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

## 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):

[price](/bip39-word/price/)[heavy](/bip39-word/heavy/)[apology](/bip39-word/apology/)[denial](/bip39-word/denial/)[carbon](/bip39-word/carbon/)[common](/bip39-word/common/)[chronic](/bip39-word/chronic/)[clock](/bip39-word/clock/)[cliff](/bip39-word/cliff/)[clay](/bip39-word/clay/)[clean](/bip39-word/clean/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x153

4-Letter Prefix

cler

## About "clerk" in BIP39

- "clerk" has 5 letters, but the first four, **"cler"**, already identify it, because **"cle"** also begins [clean](/bip39-word/clean/) and [clever](/bip39-word/clever/).
- **"cler"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins clero in the [Portuguese list](/portuguese/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #340 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) favorit 

[French](/french/) carotte 

[Italian](/italian/) cesoia 

[Japanese](/japanese/) かがみ 

[Korean](/korean/) 눈썹 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) budismo 

[Spanish](/spanish/) capote 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Read aloud, "clerk" /klɑːk/ is one sound away from these 2 words: 

[click /klɪk/](/bip39-word/click/)[clock /klɒk/](/bip39-word/clock/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "cle":

[clean](/bip39-word/clean/)[clever](/bip39-word/clever/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "C"

[ #336 clarify ](/bip39-word/clarify/)[ #337 claw ](/bip39-word/claw/)[ #338 clay ](/bip39-word/clay/)[ #339 clean ](/bip39-word/clean/)[ #341 clever ](/bip39-word/clever/)[ #342 click ](/bip39-word/click/)[ #343 client ](/bip39-word/client/)[ #344 cliff ](/bip39-word/cliff/) 

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

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