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title: "BIP39 Word #838: hamster — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/hamster/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #838 01101000101 

# hamster — BIP39 word #838

"**hamster**" is word #838 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [hammer](/bip39-word/hammer/) and [hand](/bip39-word/hand/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `01101000101`, decimal index 837\. 

/ˈhæmstə/  · _noun:_ a small furry rodent with large cheek pouches, often kept as a pet 

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

## 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):

[trim](/bip39-word/trim/)[chunk](/bip39-word/chunk/)[emerge](/bip39-word/emerge/)[judge](/bip39-word/judge/)[gaze](/bip39-word/gaze/)[hole](/bip39-word/hole/)[height](/bip39-word/height/)[have](/bip39-word/have/)[habit](/bip39-word/habit/)[happy](/bip39-word/happy/)[hammer](/bip39-word/hammer/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x345

4-Letter Prefix

hams

## About "hamster" in BIP39

- "hamster" has 7 letters, but the first four, **"hams"**, already identify it, because **"ham"** also begins [hammer](/bip39-word/hammer/).
- "hamster" appears in one of the 24 official English [test vectors](https://github.com/trezor/python-mnemonic/blob/master/vectors.json) of BIP39: vector #15 (word 1 of 24). 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 #15

hamster [diagram](/bip39-word/diagram/) [private](/bip39-word/private/) [dutch](/bip39-word/dutch/) [cause](/bip39-word/cause/) [delay](/bip39-word/delay/) [private](/bip39-word/private/) [meat](/bip39-word/meat/) [slide](/bip39-word/slide/) [toddler](/bip39-word/toddler/) [razor](/bip39-word/razor/) [book](/bip39-word/book/) [happy](/bip39-word/happy/) [fancy](/bip39-word/fancy/) [gospel](/bip39-word/gospel/) [tennis](/bip39-word/tennis/) [maple](/bip39-word/maple/) [dilemma](/bip39-word/dilemma/) [loan](/bip39-word/loan/) [word](/bip39-word/word/) [shrug](/bip39-word/shrug/) [inflict](/bip39-word/inflict/) [delay](/bip39-word/delay/) [length](/bip39-word/length/) 

## Word #838 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) migrace 

[French](/french/) flatteur 

[Italian](/italian/) infatti 

[Japanese](/japanese/) しやくしょ 

[Korean](/korean/) 설렁탕 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) filho 

[Spanish](/spanish/) guion 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Words sharing the first three letters "ham":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "H"

[ #834 habit ](/bip39-word/habit/)[ #835 hair ](/bip39-word/hair/)[ #836 half ](/bip39-word/half/)[ #837 hammer ](/bip39-word/hammer/)[ #839 hand ](/bip39-word/hand/)[ #840 happy ](/bip39-word/happy/)[ #841 harbor ](/bip39-word/harbor/)[ #842 hard ](/bip39-word/hard/) 

[View all words starting with "H" ](/bip39-words/h/) 

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [Ethereum Keystore File (JSON Wallet): Structure and Security](/json-wallets-explained/)
- [What Is BIP39? The Standard Behind Seed Phrases](/bip39-the-foundation-of-crypto-wallet-security/)
- [Seed Phrase Examples: 12, 18 and 24 BIP39 Mnemonic Phrases](/mnemonic-words-examples-for-crypto-security-bip39/)

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