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title: "BIP39 Word #494: diet — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/diet/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #494 00111101101 

# diet — BIP39 word #494

"**diet**" is word #494 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [diesel](/bip39-word/diesel/) and [differ](/bip39-word/differ/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00111101101`, decimal index 493\. 

/ˈdaɪət/  · _noun:_ the food a person usually eats, or a special eating plan 

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

## 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):

[sad](/bip39-word/sad/)[laundry](/bip39-word/laundry/)[buffalo](/bip39-word/buffalo/)[color](/bip39-word/color/)[cup](/bip39-word/cup/)[defy](/bip39-word/defy/)[distance](/bip39-word/distance/)[device](/bip39-word/device/)[diamond](/bip39-word/diamond/)[digital](/bip39-word/digital/)[diesel](/bip39-word/diesel/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x1ED

4-Letter Prefix

diet

## About "diet" in BIP39

- It takes all four letters to identify "diet": **"die"** also begins [diesel](/bip39-word/diesel/).
- **"diet"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins dieta in the [Spanish list](/spanish/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #494 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) inspekce 

[French](/french/) cycle 

[Italian](/italian/) disgelo 

[Japanese](/japanese/) くどく 

[Korean](/korean/) 모퉁이 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) condor 

[Spanish](/spanish/) cuneta 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

Read aloud, "diet" /ˈdaɪət/ is one sound away from these 2 words: 

[dial /ˈdaɪəl/](/bip39-word/dial/)[riot /ˈraɪət/](/bip39-word/riot/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "die":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "D"

[ #490 diamond ](/bip39-word/diamond/)[ #491 diary ](/bip39-word/diary/)[ #492 dice ](/bip39-word/dice/)[ #493 diesel ](/bip39-word/diesel/)[ #495 differ ](/bip39-word/differ/)[ #496 digital ](/bip39-word/digital/)[ #497 dignity ](/bip39-word/dignity/)[ #498 dilemma ](/bip39-word/dilemma/) 

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

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