--- title: "BIP39 Word #835: hair — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word" url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/hair/" language: "en" updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00" --- Word #835 01101000010 # hair — BIP39 word #835 "**hair**" is word #835 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [habit](/bip39-word/habit/) and [half](/bip39-word/half/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `01101000010`, decimal index 834\. /heə/ · _noun:_ the fine threads that grow from the skin, especially on the head [Russian](/ru/ "The BIP39 wordlist with Russian translations"): волосы ## Binary Representation Four 1-bits and seven 0-bits; 330 of the 2048 indexes have exactly four 1-bits. One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first): [tribe](/bip39-word/tribe/)[choose](/bip39-word/choose/)[embark](/bip39-word/embark/)[joke](/bip39-word/joke/)[gate](/bip39-word/gate/)[hobby](/bip39-word/hobby/)[heart](/bip39-word/heart/)[harsh](/bip39-word/harsh/)[hand](/bip39-word/hand/)[gym](/bip39-word/gym/)[half](/bip39-word/half/) Position Hex Index 0x342 4-Letter Prefix hair ## About "hair" in BIP39 - "hair" has 4 letters, but the first three, **"hai"**, already identify it, because **"ha"** also begins 14 other words, among them [habit](/bip39-word/habit/), [half](/bip39-word/half/), [hammer](/bip39-word/hammer/) and [hamster](/bip39-word/hamster/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words. - "hair" appears in one of the 24 official English [test vectors](https://github.com/trezor/python-mnemonic/blob/master/vectors.json) of BIP39: vector #23 (word 15 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 #23 [scissors](/bip39-word/scissors/) [invite](/bip39-word/invite/) [lock](/bip39-word/lock/) [maple](/bip39-word/maple/) [supreme](/bip39-word/supreme/) [raw](/bip39-word/raw/) [rapid](/bip39-word/rapid/) [void](/bip39-word/void/) [congress](/bip39-word/congress/) [muscle](/bip39-word/muscle/) [digital](/bip39-word/digital/) [elegant](/bip39-word/elegant/) [little](/bip39-word/little/) [brisk](/bip39-word/brisk/) hair [mango](/bip39-word/mango/) [congress](/bip39-word/congress/) [clump](/bip39-word/clump/) ## Word #835 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists [Czech](/czech/) metoda [French](/french/) flairer [Italian](/italian/) india [Japanese](/japanese/) しゃうん [Korean](/korean/) 선풍기 [Portuguese](/portuguese/) ficheiro [Spanish](/spanish/) guerra [Traditional Chinese](/chinese-traditional/) 乎 [Simplified Chinese](/chinese-simplified/) 乎 ## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery 3 BIP39 words differ from "hair" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand: [air](/bip39-word/air/)[chair](/bip39-word/chair/)[pair](/bip39-word/pair/) Read aloud, "hair" /heə/ is one sound away from these 7 words: [high /haɪ/](/bip39-word/high/)[pear /peə/](/bip39-word/pear/)[rare /reə/](/bip39-word/rare/)[share /ʃeə/](/bip39-word/share/)[there /ðeə/](/bip39-word/there/)[wear /weə/](/bip39-word/wear/)[where /weə/](/bip39-word/where/) ## More BIP39 Words Starting with "H" [ #834 habit ](/bip39-word/habit/)[ #836 half ](/bip39-word/half/)[ #837 hammer ](/bip39-word/hammer/)[ #838 hamster ](/bip39-word/hamster/)[ #839 hand ](/bip39-word/hand/)[ #895 hurt ](/bip39-word/hurt/)[ #896 husband ](/bip39-word/husband/)[ #897 hybrid ](/bip39-word/hybrid/) [View all words starting with "H" ](/bip39-words/h/) ## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides - [BIP 44 – Multi-Account Hierarchy for Deterministic Wallets](/bip-44-multi-account-hierarchy-for-deterministic-wallets/) - [Electrum Seed vs BIP39: Why Other Wallets Reject It](/electrum-seed-vs-bip39/) - [Cold Sharding: Splitting a Private Key Into Offline Shamir Shares](/cold-sharding-method-private-key-storage-strategy/) [ Full BIP39 Wordlist ](/)