--- title: "BIP39 Word #839: hand — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word" url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/hand/" language: "en" updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00" --- Word #839 01101000110 # hand — BIP39 word #839 "**hand**" is word #839 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [hamster](/bip39-word/hamster/) and [happy](/bip39-word/happy/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `01101000110`, decimal index 838\. /hænd/ · _noun:_ the part of the body at the end of the arm [Russian](/ru/ "The BIP39 wordlist with Russian translations"): рука ## 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): [trip](/bip39-word/trip/)[churn](/bip39-word/churn/)[emotion](/bip39-word/emotion/)[juice](/bip39-word/juice/)[general](/bip39-word/general/)[holiday](/bip39-word/holiday/)[hello](/bip39-word/hello/)[hawk](/bip39-word/hawk/)[hair](/bip39-word/hair/)[hammer](/bip39-word/hammer/)[happy](/bip39-word/happy/) Position Hex Index 0x346 4-Letter Prefix hand ## About "hand" in BIP39 - "hand" has 4 letters, but the first three, **"han"**, already identify it, because **"ha"** also begins 14 other words, among them [habit](/bip39-word/habit/), [hair](/bip39-word/hair/), [half](/bip39-word/half/) and [hammer](/bip39-word/hammer/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words. ## Word #839 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists [Czech](/czech/) mihnout [French](/french/) fléau [Italian](/italian/) infilare [Japanese](/japanese/) しゃくほう [Korean](/korean/) 설명 [Portuguese](/portuguese/) filme [Spanish](/spanish/) guiso [Traditional Chinese](/chinese-traditional/) 魯 [Simplified Chinese](/chinese-simplified/) 鲁 ## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery 2 BIP39 words differ from "hand" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand: [hard](/bip39-word/hard/)[sand](/bip39-word/sand/) ## More BIP39 Words Starting with "H" [ #835 hair ](/bip39-word/hair/)[ #836 half ](/bip39-word/half/)[ #837 hammer ](/bip39-word/hammer/)[ #838 hamster ](/bip39-word/hamster/)[ #840 happy ](/bip39-word/happy/)[ #841 harbor ](/bip39-word/harbor/)[ #842 hard ](/bip39-word/hard/)[ #843 harsh ](/bip39-word/harsh/) [View all words starting with "H" ](/bip39-words/h/) ## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides - [How to Protect Your Crypto Wallet from Phishing](/protect-crypto-wallet-from-phishing/) - [Monero Seed Phrase: 25 Words, Polyseed and Private Keys](/seed-phrase-and-private-key-format-of-monero-guide/) - [BIP85: Derive Many Seed Phrases From One Seed](/bip85/) [ Full BIP39 Wordlist ](/)