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title: "BIP39 Word #464: delay — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/delay/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #464 00111001111 

# delay — BIP39 word #464

"**delay**" is word #464 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [degree](/bip39-word/degree/) and [deliver](/bip39-word/deliver/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00111001111`, decimal index 463\. 

/dɪˈleɪ/  · _noun:_ a period of time by which something is late or postponed 

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

## Binary Representation

Seven 1-bits and four 0-bits; 330 of the 2048 indexes have exactly seven 1-bits.

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

[rigid](/bip39-word/rigid/)[ketchup](/bip39-word/ketchup/)[boring](/bip39-word/boring/)[clarify](/bip39-word/clarify/)[cradle](/bip39-word/cradle/)[digital](/bip39-word/digital/)[desk](/bip39-word/desk/)[decline](/bip39-word/decline/)[defense](/bip39-word/defense/)[defy](/bip39-word/defy/)[degree](/bip39-word/degree/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x1CF

4-Letter Prefix

dela

## About "delay" in BIP39

- "delay" has 5 letters, but the first four, **"dela"**, already identify it, because **"del"** also begins [deliver](/bip39-word/deliver/).
- **"dela"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins delator in the [Portuguese list](/portuguese/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
- "delay" appears in one of the 24 official English [test vectors](https://github.com/trezor/python-mnemonic/blob/master/vectors.json) of BIP39: vector #15 (words 6 and 23 of 24). 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 #15

[hamster](/bip39-word/hamster/) [diagram](/bip39-word/diagram/) [private](/bip39-word/private/) [dutch](/bip39-word/dutch/) [cause](/bip39-word/cause/) delay [private](/bip39-word/private/) [meat](/bip39-word/meat/) [slide](/bip39-word/slide/) [toddler](/bip39-word/toddler/) [razor](/bip39-word/razor/) [book](/bip39-word/book/) [happy](/bip39-word/happy/) [fancy](/bip39-word/fancy/) [gospel](/bip39-word/gospel/) [tennis](/bip39-word/tennis/) [maple](/bip39-word/maple/) [dilemma](/bip39-word/dilemma/) [loan](/bip39-word/loan/) [word](/bip39-word/word/) [shrug](/bip39-word/shrug/) [inflict](/bip39-word/inflict/) delay [length](/bip39-word/length/) 

## Word #464 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) hrobka 

[French](/french/) crainte 

[Italian](/italian/) deposito 

[Japanese](/japanese/) くうぐん 

[Korean](/korean/) 매스컴 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) clone 

[Spanish](/spanish/) crecer 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Words sharing the first three letters "del":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "D"

[ #460 defense ](/bip39-word/defense/)[ #461 define ](/bip39-word/define/)[ #462 defy ](/bip39-word/defy/)[ #463 degree ](/bip39-word/degree/)[ #465 deliver ](/bip39-word/deliver/)[ #466 demand ](/bip39-word/demand/)[ #467 demise ](/bip39-word/demise/)[ #468 denial ](/bip39-word/denial/) 

[View all words starting with "D" ](/bip39-words/d/) 

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