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title: "BIP39 Word #732: fork — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/fork/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #732 01011011011 

# fork — BIP39 word #732

"**fork**" is word #732 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [forget](/bip39-word/forget/) and [fortune](/bip39-word/fortune/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `01011011011`, decimal index 731\. 

/fɔːk/  · _noun:_ a tool with prongs used for eating, or a split into branches 

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

## Binary Representation

Seven 1-bits and four 0-bits; 330 of the 2048 indexes have exactly seven 1-bits.

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

[swarm](/bip39-word/swarm/)[bread](/bip39-word/bread/)[kiwi](/bip39-word/kiwi/)[enter](/bip39-word/enter/)[fat](/bip39-word/fat/)[garage](/bip39-word/garage/)[floor](/bip39-word/floor/)[foil](/bip39-word/foil/)[fossil](/bip39-word/fossil/)[forest](/bip39-word/forest/)[forget](/bip39-word/forget/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x2DB

4-Letter Prefix

fork

## About "fork" in BIP39

- It takes all four letters to identify "fork": **"for"** also begins [force](/bip39-word/force/), [forest](/bip39-word/forest/), [forget](/bip39-word/forget/), [fortune](/bip39-word/fortune/), [forum](/bip39-word/forum/) and [forward](/bip39-word/forward/).

## Word #732 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) latinka 

[French](/french/) étagère 

[Italian](/italian/) gasdotto 

[Japanese](/japanese/) ざつおん 

[Korean](/korean/) 비상 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) errata 

[Spanish](/spanish/) flujo 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

Read aloud, "fork" /fɔːk/ is one sound away from these 6 words: 

[chalk /ʧɔːk/](/bip39-word/chalk/)[fall /fɔːl/](/bip39-word/fall/)[force /fɔːs/](/bip39-word/force/)[hawk /hɔːk/](/bip39-word/hawk/)[talk /tɔːk/](/bip39-word/talk/)[walk /wɔːk/](/bip39-word/walk/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "for":

[force](/bip39-word/force/)[forest](/bip39-word/forest/)[forget](/bip39-word/forget/)[fortune](/bip39-word/fortune/)[forum](/bip39-word/forum/)[forward](/bip39-word/forward/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "F"

[ #728 foot ](/bip39-word/foot/)[ #729 force ](/bip39-word/force/)[ #730 forest ](/bip39-word/forest/)[ #731 forget ](/bip39-word/forget/)[ #733 fortune ](/bip39-word/fortune/)[ #734 forum ](/bip39-word/forum/)[ #735 forward ](/bip39-word/forward/)[ #736 fossil ](/bip39-word/fossil/) 

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

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