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title: "BIP39 Word #541: drum — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/drum/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #541 01000011100 

# drum — BIP39 word #541

"**drum**" is word #541 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [drop](/bip39-word/drop/) and [dry](/bip39-word/dry/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `01000011100`, decimal index 540\. 

/drʌm/  · _noun:_ a musical instrument played by beating a stretched skin 

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

## 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):

[seminar](/bip39-word/seminar/)[adjust](/bip39-word/adjust/)[glory](/bip39-word/glory/)[fatal](/bip39-word/fatal/)[entire](/bip39-word/entire/)[elegant](/bip39-word/elegant/)[dose](/bip39-word/dose/)[dream](/bip39-word/dream/)[drink](/bip39-word/drink/)[duck](/bip39-word/duck/)[dry](/bip39-word/dry/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x21C

4-Letter Prefix

drum

## About "drum" in BIP39

- "drum" has 4 letters, but the first three, **"dru"**, already identify it, because **"dr"** also begins 14 other words, among them [draft](/bip39-word/draft/), [dragon](/bip39-word/dragon/), [drama](/bip39-word/drama/) and [drastic](/bip39-word/drastic/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.

## Word #541 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) kachna 

[French](/french/) dérober 

[Italian](/italian/) elaborato 

[Japanese](/japanese/) けたば 

[Korean](/korean/) 미술 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) cuidado 

[Spanish](/spanish/) dictar 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Read aloud, "drum" /drʌm/ is one sound away from these 2 words: 

[dream /driːm/](/bip39-word/dream/)[dumb /dʌm/](/bip39-word/dumb/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "D"

[ #537 drink ](/bip39-word/drink/)[ #538 drip ](/bip39-word/drip/)[ #539 drive ](/bip39-word/drive/)[ #540 drop ](/bip39-word/drop/)[ #542 dry ](/bip39-word/dry/)[ #543 duck ](/bip39-word/duck/)[ #544 dumb ](/bip39-word/dumb/)[ #545 dune ](/bip39-word/dune/) 

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

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