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title: "BIP39 Word #680: female — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/female/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #680 01010100111 

# female — BIP39 word #680

"**female**" is word #680 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [feel](/bip39-word/feel/) and [fence](/bip39-word/fence/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `01010100111`, decimal index 679\. 

/ˈfiːmeɪl/  · _adjective:_ belonging to the sex that can bear young or produce eggs 

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

## Binary Representation

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

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

[stay](/bip39-word/stay/)[belt](/bip39-word/belt/)[insane](/bip39-word/insane/)[eager](/bip39-word/eager/)[friend](/bip39-word/friend/)[extend](/bip39-word/extend/)[finger](/bip39-word/finger/)[field](/bip39-word/field/)[federal](/bip39-word/federal/)[feed](/bip39-word/feed/)[feel](/bip39-word/feel/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x2A7

4-Letter Prefix

fema

## About "female" in BIP39

- "female" has 6 letters, but the first three, **"fem"**, already identify it, because **"fe"** also begins 11 other words, among them [feature](/bip39-word/feature/), [february](/bip39-word/february/), [federal](/bip39-word/federal/) and [fee](/bip39-word/fee/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
- "female" appears in one of the 24 official English [test vectors](https://github.com/trezor/python-mnemonic/blob/master/vectors.json) of BIP39: vector #14 (word 6 of 18). 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 #14

[gravity](/bip39-word/gravity/) [machine](/bip39-word/machine/) [north](/bip39-word/north/) [sort](/bip39-word/sort/) [system](/bip39-word/system/) female [filter](/bip39-word/filter/) [attitude](/bip39-word/attitude/) [volume](/bip39-word/volume/) [fold](/bip39-word/fold/) [club](/bip39-word/club/) [stay](/bip39-word/stay/) [feature](/bip39-word/feature/) [office](/bip39-word/office/) [ecology](/bip39-word/ecology/) [stable](/bip39-word/stable/) [narrow](/bip39-word/narrow/) [fog](/bip39-word/fog/) 

## Word #680 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) krmelec 

[French](/french/) enlever 

[Italian](/italian/) fonetico 

[Japanese](/japanese/) こやく 

[Korean](/korean/) 부근 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) emenda 

[Spanish](/spanish/) falso 

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

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "F"

[ #676 federal ](/bip39-word/federal/)[ #677 fee ](/bip39-word/fee/)[ #678 feed ](/bip39-word/feed/)[ #679 feel ](/bip39-word/feel/)[ #681 fence ](/bip39-word/fence/)[ #682 festival ](/bip39-word/festival/)[ #683 fetch ](/bip39-word/fetch/)[ #684 fever ](/bip39-word/fever/) 

[View all words starting with "F" ](/bip39-words/f/) 

## 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/)
- [Metal Seed Phrase Backup: Steel Plates, Tiles and Tests](/metal-seed-phrase-backup/)

[ Full BIP39 Wordlist ](/)