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title: "BIP39 Word #539: drive — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/drive/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #539 01000011010 

# drive — BIP39 word #539

"**drive**" is word #539 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [drip](/bip39-word/drip/) and [drop](/bip39-word/drop/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `01000011010`, decimal index 538\. 

/draɪv/  · _verb:_ to operate and control a vehicle such as a car 

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

## 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):

[select](/bip39-word/select/)[addict](/bip39-word/addict/)[globe](/bip39-word/globe/)[fashion](/bip39-word/fashion/)[ensure](/bip39-word/ensure/)[elder](/bip39-word/elder/)[donor](/bip39-word/donor/)[drastic](/bip39-word/drastic/)[duck](/bip39-word/duck/)[drink](/bip39-word/drink/)[drop](/bip39-word/drop/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x21A

4-Letter Prefix

driv

## About "drive" in BIP39

- "drive" has 5 letters, but the first four, **"driv"**, already identify it, because **"dri"** also begins [drift](/bip39-word/drift/), [drill](/bip39-word/drill/), [drink](/bip39-word/drink/) and [drip](/bip39-word/drip/).
- "drive" appears in one of the 24 official English [test vectors](https://github.com/trezor/python-mnemonic/blob/master/vectors.json) of BIP39: vector #18 (word 22 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 #18

[panda](/bip39-word/panda/) [eyebrow](/bip39-word/eyebrow/) [bullet](/bip39-word/bullet/) [gorilla](/bip39-word/gorilla/) [call](/bip39-word/call/) [smoke](/bip39-word/smoke/) [muffin](/bip39-word/muffin/) [taste](/bip39-word/taste/) [mesh](/bip39-word/mesh/) [discover](/bip39-word/discover/) [soft](/bip39-word/soft/) [ostrich](/bip39-word/ostrich/) [alcohol](/bip39-word/alcohol/) [speed](/bip39-word/speed/) [nation](/bip39-word/nation/) [flash](/bip39-word/flash/) [devote](/bip39-word/devote/) [level](/bip39-word/level/) [hobby](/bip39-word/hobby/) [quick](/bip39-word/quick/) [inner](/bip39-word/inner/) drive [ghost](/bip39-word/ghost/) [inside](/bip39-word/inside/) 

## Word #539 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) kabel 

[French](/french/) déposer 

[Italian](/italian/) egoismo 

[Japanese](/japanese/) けしょう 

[Korean](/korean/) 미디어 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) cubano 

[Spanish](/spanish/) diario 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

Read aloud, "drive" /draɪv/ is one sound away from these 3 words: 

[arrive /əˈraɪv/](/bip39-word/arrive/)[dry /draɪ/](/bip39-word/dry/)[thrive /θraɪv/](/bip39-word/thrive/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "dri":

[drift](/bip39-word/drift/)[drill](/bip39-word/drill/)[drink](/bip39-word/drink/)[drip](/bip39-word/drip/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "D"

[ #535 drift ](/bip39-word/drift/)[ #536 drill ](/bip39-word/drill/)[ #537 drink ](/bip39-word/drink/)[ #538 drip ](/bip39-word/drip/)[ #540 drop ](/bip39-word/drop/)[ #541 drum ](/bip39-word/drum/)[ #542 dry ](/bip39-word/dry/)[ #543 duck ](/bip39-word/duck/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [Is a Seed Phrase Case Sensitive? BIP39 Words vs Passphrase](/is-seed-phrase-case-sensitivity-really-important/)
- [BIP-444 (Now BIP 110): Reduced Data Temporary Softfork Explained](/bip-444-reduced-data-temporary-softfork/)
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