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title: "BIP39 Word #400: cradle — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/cradle/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #400 00110001111 

# cradle — BIP39 word #400

"**cradle**" is word #400 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [crack](/bip39-word/crack/) and [craft](/bip39-word/craft/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00110001111`, decimal index 399\. 

/ˈkreɪdᵊl/  · _noun:_ a small bed for a baby, often one that rocks 

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

## 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):

[rapid](/bip39-word/rapid/)[impose](/bip39-word/impose/)[ball](/bip39-word/ball/)[capable](/bip39-word/capable/)[delay](/bip39-word/delay/)[curious](/bip39-word/curious/)[crop](/bip39-word/crop/)[couch](/bip39-word/couch/)[cousin](/bip39-word/cousin/)[coyote](/bip39-word/coyote/)[crack](/bip39-word/crack/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x18F

4-Letter Prefix

crad

## About "cradle" in BIP39

- "cradle" has 6 letters, but the first four, **"crad"**, already identify it, because **"cra"** also begins 8 other words, among them [crack](/bip39-word/crack/), [craft](/bip39-word/craft/), [cram](/bip39-word/cram/) and [crane](/bip39-word/crane/).
- "cradle" appears in one of the 24 official English [test vectors](https://github.com/trezor/python-mnemonic/blob/master/vectors.json) of BIP39: vector #16 (word 9 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 #16

[scheme](/bip39-word/scheme/) [spot](/bip39-word/spot/) [photo](/bip39-word/photo/) [card](/bip39-word/card/) [baby](/bip39-word/baby/) [mountain](/bip39-word/mountain/) [device](/bip39-word/device/) [kick](/bip39-word/kick/) cradle [pact](/bip39-word/pact/) [join](/bip39-word/join/) [borrow](/bip39-word/borrow/) 

## Word #400 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) hematom 

[French](/french/) cirque 

[Italian](/italian/) coricato 

[Japanese](/japanese/) きさらぎ 

[Korean](/korean/) 대합실 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) carreira 

[Spanish](/spanish/) cigarro 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Words sharing the first three letters "cra":

[crack](/bip39-word/crack/)[craft](/bip39-word/craft/)[cram](/bip39-word/cram/)[crane](/bip39-word/crane/)[crash](/bip39-word/crash/)[crater](/bip39-word/crater/)[crawl](/bip39-word/crawl/)[crazy](/bip39-word/crazy/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "C"

[ #396 cousin ](/bip39-word/cousin/)[ #397 cover ](/bip39-word/cover/)[ #398 coyote ](/bip39-word/coyote/)[ #399 crack ](/bip39-word/crack/)[ #401 craft ](/bip39-word/craft/)[ #402 cram ](/bip39-word/cram/)[ #403 crane ](/bip39-word/crane/)[ #404 crash ](/bip39-word/crash/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [Seed Phrase Examples: 12, 18 and 24 BIP39 Mnemonic Phrases](/mnemonic-words-examples-for-crypto-security-bip39/)
- [How to Protect Your Crypto Wallet from Phishing](/protect-crypto-wallet-from-phishing/)
- [Monero Seed Phrase: 25 Words, Polyseed and Private Keys](/seed-phrase-and-private-key-format-of-monero-guide/)

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