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title: "BIP39 Word #618: essay — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/essay/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #618 01001101001 

# essay — BIP39 word #618

"**essay**" is word #618 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [escape](/bip39-word/escape/) and [essence](/bip39-word/essence/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `01001101001`, decimal index 617\. 

/ˈɛseɪ/  · _noun:_ a short piece of writing on a particular subject 

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

## 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):

[snake](/bip39-word/snake/)[artwork](/bip39-word/artwork/)[honey](/bip39-word/honey/)[frog](/bip39-word/frog/)[early](/bip39-word/early/)[empty](/bip39-word/empty/)[execute](/bip39-word/execute/)[equip](/bip39-word/equip/)[ethics](/bip39-word/ethics/)[estate](/bip39-word/estate/)[escape](/bip39-word/escape/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x269

4-Letter Prefix

essa

## About "essay" in BIP39

- "essay" has 5 letters, but the first four, **"essa"**, already identify it, because **"ess"** also begins [essence](/bip39-word/essence/).
- **"essa"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins essayer in the [French list](/french/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #618 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) kojenec 

[French](/french/) économie 

[Italian](/italian/) faccenda 

[Japanese](/japanese/) こうない 

[Korean](/korean/) 백화점 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) difuso 

[Spanish](/spanish/) engaño 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Read aloud, "essay" /ˈɛseɪ/ is one sound away from this word: 

[say /seɪ/](/bip39-word/say/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "ess":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "E"

[ #614 erosion ](/bip39-word/erosion/)[ #615 error ](/bip39-word/error/)[ #616 erupt ](/bip39-word/erupt/)[ #617 escape ](/bip39-word/escape/)[ #619 essence ](/bip39-word/essence/)[ #620 estate ](/bip39-word/estate/)[ #621 eternal ](/bip39-word/eternal/)[ #622 ethics ](/bip39-word/ethics/) 

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

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