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title: "BIP39 Word #685: few — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/few/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #685 01010101100 

# few — BIP39 word #685

"**few**" is word #685 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [fever](/bip39-word/fever/) and [fiber](/bip39-word/fiber/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `01010101100`, decimal index 684\. 

/fjuː/  · _determiner:_ a small number of 

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

## 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):

[stereo](/bip39-word/stereo/)[better](/bip39-word/better/)[intact](/bip39-word/intact/)[easily](/bip39-word/easily/)[frown](/bip39-word/frown/)[face](/bip39-word/face/)[fiscal](/bip39-word/fiscal/)[fee](/bip39-word/fee/)[fence](/bip39-word/fence/)[fiction](/bip39-word/fiction/)[fiber](/bip39-word/fiber/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x2AC

4-Letter Prefix

few

## About "few" in BIP39

- It takes all three letters to identify "few": **"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.

## Word #685 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) kropit 

[French](/french/) enseigne 

[Italian](/italian/) foresta 

[Japanese](/japanese/) こよう 

[Korean](/korean/) 부분 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) empinado 

[Spanish](/spanish/) faraón 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

 One BIP39 word differs from "few" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand: 

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

Read aloud, "few" /fjuː/ is one sound away from these 2 words: 

[view /vjuː/](/bip39-word/view/)[you /juː/](/bip39-word/you/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "F"

[ #681 fence ](/bip39-word/fence/)[ #682 festival ](/bip39-word/festival/)[ #683 fetch ](/bip39-word/fetch/)[ #684 fever ](/bip39-word/fever/)[ #686 fiber ](/bip39-word/fiber/)[ #687 fiction ](/bip39-word/fiction/)[ #688 field ](/bip39-word/field/)[ #689 figure ](/bip39-word/figure/) 

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

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