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title: "BIP39 Word #571: elder — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/elder/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #571 01000111010 

# elder — BIP39 word #571

"**elder**" is word #571 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [elbow](/bip39-word/elbow/) and [electric](/bip39-word/electric/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `01000111010`, decimal index 570\. 

/ˈɛldə/  · _adjective:_ older, especially of two related people 

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

## Binary Representation

Five 1-bits and six 0-bits; 462 of the 2048 indexes have exactly five 1-bits.

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

[shrug](/bip39-word/shrug/)[also](/bip39-word/also/)[guard](/bip39-word/guard/)[firm](/bip39-word/firm/)[exercise](/bip39-word/exercise/)[drive](/bip39-word/drive/)[earn](/bip39-word/earn/)[edge](/bip39-word/edge/)[elephant](/bip39-word/elephant/)[either](/bip39-word/either/)[electric](/bip39-word/electric/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x23A

4-Letter Prefix

elde

## About "elder" in BIP39

- "elder" has 5 letters, but the first three, **"eld"**, already identify it, because **"el"** also begins 8 other words, among them [elbow](/bip39-word/elbow/), [electric](/bip39-word/electric/), [elegant](/bip39-word/elegant/) and [element](/bip39-word/element/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
- "elder" appears in one of the 24 official English [test vectors](https://github.com/trezor/python-mnemonic/blob/master/vectors.json) of BIP39: vector #13 (word 10 of 12). 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 #13

[ozone](/bip39-word/ozone/) [drill](/bip39-word/drill/) [grab](/bip39-word/grab/) [fiber](/bip39-word/fiber/) [curtain](/bip39-word/curtain/) [grace](/bip39-word/grace/) [pudding](/bip39-word/pudding/) [thank](/bip39-word/thank/) [cruise](/bip39-word/cruise/) elder [eight](/bip39-word/eight/) [picnic](/bip39-word/picnic/) 

## Word #571 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) kasa 

[French](/french/) discuter 

[Italian](/italian/) eppure 

[Japanese](/japanese/) けむり 

[Korean](/korean/) 반성 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) defesa 

[Spanish](/spanish/) duda 

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

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "E"

[ #567 egg ](/bip39-word/egg/)[ #568 eight ](/bip39-word/eight/)[ #569 either ](/bip39-word/either/)[ #570 elbow ](/bip39-word/elbow/)[ #572 electric ](/bip39-word/electric/)[ #573 elegant ](/bip39-word/elegant/)[ #574 element ](/bip39-word/element/)[ #575 elephant ](/bip39-word/elephant/) 

[View all words starting with "E" ](/bip39-words/e/) 

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- [Invalid Seed Phrase? How to Find and Fix a Wrong Word (BIP39)](/how-to-fix-seed-phrase-errors/)
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