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title: "BIP39 Word #402: cram — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/cram/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #402 00110010001 

# cram — BIP39 word #402

"**cram**" is word #402 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [craft](/bip39-word/craft/) and [crane](/bip39-word/crane/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00110010001`, decimal index 401\. 

/kræm/  · _verb:_ to force too many things into a space, or study hard quickly 

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

## 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):

[rate](/bip39-word/rate/)[impulse](/bip39-word/impulse/)[banana](/bip39-word/banana/)[captain](/bip39-word/captain/)[demand](/bip39-word/demand/)[curtain](/bip39-word/curtain/)[coral](/bip39-word/coral/)[creek](/bip39-word/creek/)[crawl](/bip39-word/crawl/)[crash](/bip39-word/crash/)[craft](/bip39-word/craft/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x191

4-Letter Prefix

cram

## About "cram" in BIP39

- It takes all four letters to identify "cram": **"cra"** also begins 8 other words, among them [crack](/bip39-word/crack/), [cradle](/bip39-word/cradle/), [craft](/bip39-word/craft/) and [crane](/bip39-word/crane/).

## Word #402 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) herna 

[French](/french/) citoyen 

[Italian](/italian/) corolla 

[Japanese](/japanese/) ぎしき 

[Korean](/korean/) 덩어리 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) carvalho 

[Spanish](/spanish/) cinco 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

 One BIP39 word differs from "cram" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand: 

[cream](/bip39-word/cream/) 

Read aloud, "cram" /kræm/ is one sound away from these 3 words: 

[crack /kræk/](/bip39-word/crack/)[crash /kræʃ/](/bip39-word/crash/)[crime /kraɪm/](/bip39-word/crime/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "cra":

[crack](/bip39-word/crack/)[cradle](/bip39-word/cradle/)[craft](/bip39-word/craft/)[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"

[ #398 coyote ](/bip39-word/coyote/)[ #399 crack ](/bip39-word/crack/)[ #400 cradle ](/bip39-word/cradle/)[ #401 craft ](/bip39-word/craft/)[ #403 crane ](/bip39-word/crane/)[ #404 crash ](/bip39-word/crash/)[ #405 crater ](/bip39-word/crater/)[ #406 crawl ](/bip39-word/crawl/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [How to Encrypt a Seed Phrase: AES, XOR and Steganography](/seed-phrase-encrypting-with-aes-xor-and-steganography/)
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