---
title: "BIP39 Word #619: essence — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/essence/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
---

Word #619 01001101010 

# essence — BIP39 word #619

"**essence**" is word #619 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [essay](/bip39-word/essay/) and [estate](/bip39-word/estate/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `01001101010`, decimal index 618\. 

/ˈɛsns/  · _noun:_ the most important quality of something, or a concentrated extract 

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

## 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):

[snap](/bip39-word/snap/)[ask](/bip39-word/ask/)[hood](/bip39-word/hood/)[front](/bip39-word/front/)[earn](/bip39-word/earn/)[enable](/bip39-word/enable/)[exercise](/bip39-word/exercise/)[era](/bip39-word/era/)[evidence](/bip39-word/evidence/)[escape](/bip39-word/escape/)[estate](/bip39-word/estate/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x26A

4-Letter Prefix

esse

## About "essence" in BIP39

- "essence" has 7 letters, but the first four, **"esse"**, already identify it, because **"ess"** also begins [essay](/bip39-word/essay/).
- The same spelling is in the [French BIP39 wordlist](/french/), but as word #726 (index 725), not #619\. A wallet set to French reads "essence" as **01011010101** instead of **01001101010**, and decodes index 618 as "écorce".
- **"esse"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins essenza in the [Italian list](/italian/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #619 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) kokos 

[French](/french/) écorce 

[Italian](/italian/) fachiro 

[Japanese](/japanese/) こうはい 

[Korean](/korean/) 버릇 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) digitar 

[Spanish](/spanish/) enigma 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Words sharing the first three letters "ess":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "E"

[ #615 error ](/bip39-word/error/)[ #616 erupt ](/bip39-word/erupt/)[ #617 escape ](/bip39-word/escape/)[ #618 essay ](/bip39-word/essay/)[ #620 estate ](/bip39-word/estate/)[ #621 eternal ](/bip39-word/eternal/)[ #622 ethics ](/bip39-word/ethics/)[ #623 evidence ](/bip39-word/evidence/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [What Is BIP39? The Standard Behind Seed Phrases](/bip39-the-foundation-of-crypto-wallet-security/)
- [Seed Phrase Examples: 12, 18 and 24 BIP39 Mnemonic Phrases](/mnemonic-words-examples-for-crypto-security-bip39/)
- [How to Protect Your Crypto Wallet from Phishing](/protect-crypto-wallet-from-phishing/)

[ Full BIP39 Wordlist ](/)