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title: "BIP39 Word #821: grief — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/grief/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #821 01100110100 

# grief — BIP39 word #821

"**grief**" is word #821 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [grid](/bip39-word/grid/) and [grit](/bip39-word/grit/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `01100110100`, decimal index 820\. 

/griːf/  · _noun:_ deep sorrow, especially caused by someone's death 

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

## 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):

[track](/bip39-word/track/)[charge](/bip39-word/charge/)[educate](/bip39-word/educate/)[isolate](/bip39-word/isolate/)[hub](/bip39-word/hub/)[glad](/bip39-word/glad/)[goose](/bip39-word/goose/)[guide](/bip39-word/guide/)[gravity](/bip39-word/gravity/)[grocery](/bip39-word/grocery/)[grit](/bip39-word/grit/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x334

4-Letter Prefix

grie

## About "grief" in BIP39

- "grief" has 5 letters, but the first four, **"grie"**, already identify it, because **"gri"** also begins [grid](/bip39-word/grid/) and [grit](/bip39-word/grit/).
- **"grie"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins grieta in the [Spanish list](/spanish/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #821 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) matrika 

[French](/french/) figure 

[Italian](/italian/) importo 

[Japanese](/japanese/) しふく 

[Korean](/korean/) 서점 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) felino 

[Spanish](/spanish/) grave 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

Read aloud, "grief" /griːf/ is one sound away from this word: 

[green /griːn/](/bip39-word/green/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "gri":

[grid](/bip39-word/grid/)[grit](/bip39-word/grit/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "G"

[ #817 gravity ](/bip39-word/gravity/)[ #818 great ](/bip39-word/great/)[ #819 green ](/bip39-word/green/)[ #820 grid ](/bip39-word/grid/)[ #822 grit ](/bip39-word/grit/)[ #823 grocery ](/bip39-word/grocery/)[ #824 group ](/bip39-word/group/)[ #825 grow ](/bip39-word/grow/) 

[View all words starting with "G" ](/bip39-words/g/) 

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