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title: "BIP39 Word #353: clown — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/clown/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #353 00101100000 

# clown — BIP39 word #353

"**clown**" is word #353 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [cloud](/bip39-word/cloud/) and [club](/bip39-word/club/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00101100000`, decimal index 352\. 

/klaʊn/  · _noun:_ a performer who wears funny clothes and makeup to make people laugh 

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

## Binary Representation

Three 1-bits and eight 0-bits; 165 of the 2048 indexes have exactly three 1-bits.

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

[project](/bip39-word/project/)[hire](/bip39-word/hire/)[army](/bip39-word/army/)[despair](/bip39-word/despair/)[catch](/bip39-word/catch/)[chimney](/bip39-word/chimney/)[come](/bip39-word/come/)[code](/bip39-word/code/)[clutch](/bip39-word/clutch/)[clump](/bip39-word/clump/)[club](/bip39-word/club/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x160

4-Letter Prefix

clow

## About "clown" in BIP39

- "clown" has 5 letters, but the first four, **"clow"**, already identify it, because **"clo"** also begins [clock](/bip39-word/clock/), [clog](/bip39-word/clog/), [close](/bip39-word/close/), [cloth](/bip39-word/cloth/) and [cloud](/bip39-word/cloud/).

## Word #353 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) flanel 

[French](/french/) ceinture 

[Italian](/italian/) cifrare 

[Japanese](/japanese/) かのう 

[Korean](/korean/) 단독 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) cacetada 

[Spanish](/spanish/) casa 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Read aloud, "clown" /klaʊn/ is one sound away from these 2 words: 

[clean /kliːn/](/bip39-word/clean/)[cloud /klaʊd/](/bip39-word/cloud/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "clo":

[clock](/bip39-word/clock/)[clog](/bip39-word/clog/)[close](/bip39-word/close/)[cloth](/bip39-word/cloth/)[cloud](/bip39-word/cloud/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "C"

[ #349 clog ](/bip39-word/clog/)[ #350 close ](/bip39-word/close/)[ #351 cloth ](/bip39-word/cloth/)[ #352 cloud ](/bip39-word/cloud/)[ #354 club ](/bip39-word/club/)[ #355 clump ](/bip39-word/clump/)[ #356 cluster ](/bip39-word/cluster/)[ #357 clutch ](/bip39-word/clutch/) 

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

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