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title: "BIP39 Word #822: grit — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/grit/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #822 01100110101 

# grit — BIP39 word #822

"**grit**" is word #822 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [grief](/bip39-word/grief/) and [grocery](/bip39-word/grocery/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `01100110101`, decimal index 821\. 

/ɡrɪt/  · _noun:_ small loose pieces of stone, or courage and determination 

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

## 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):

[trade](/bip39-word/trade/)[chase](/bip39-word/chase/)[effort](/bip39-word/effort/)[issue](/bip39-word/issue/)[huge](/bip39-word/huge/)[glance](/bip39-word/glance/)[gorilla](/bip39-word/gorilla/)[guilt](/bip39-word/guilt/)[great](/bip39-word/great/)[group](/bip39-word/group/)[grief](/bip39-word/grief/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x335

4-Letter Prefix

grit

## About "grit" in BIP39

- It takes all four letters to identify "grit": **"gri"** also begins [grid](/bip39-word/grid/) and [grief](/bip39-word/grief/).
- **"grit"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins grito in the [Spanish list](/spanish/) and gritaria in the [Portuguese list](/portuguese/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #822 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) maturita 

[French](/french/) filature 

[Italian](/italian/) impronta 

[Japanese](/japanese/) じぶん 

[Korean](/korean/) 서쪽 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) feminino 

[Spanish](/spanish/) grieta 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

Read aloud, "grit" /ɡrɪt/ is one sound away from this word: 

[great /greɪt/](/bip39-word/great/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "gri":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "G"

[ #818 great ](/bip39-word/great/)[ #819 green ](/bip39-word/green/)[ #820 grid ](/bip39-word/grid/)[ #821 grief ](/bip39-word/grief/)[ #823 grocery ](/bip39-word/grocery/)[ #824 group ](/bip39-word/group/)[ #825 grow ](/bip39-word/grow/)[ #826 grunt ](/bip39-word/grunt/) 

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

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- [Invalid Seed Phrase? How to Find and Fix a Wrong Word (BIP39)](/how-to-fix-seed-phrase-errors/)
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