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title: "BIP39 Word #863: hint — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/hint/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #863 01101011110 

# hint — BIP39 word #863

"**hint**" is word #863 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [hill](/bip39-word/hill/) and [hip](/bip39-word/hip/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `01101011110`, decimal index 862\. 

/hɪnt/  · _noun:_ a small piece of indirect advice or a slight suggestion 

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

## Binary Representation

Seven 1-bits and four 0-bits; 330 of the 2048 indexes have exactly seven 1-bits.

One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):

[type](/bip39-word/type/)[cloth](/bip39-word/cloth/)[envelope](/bip39-word/envelope/)[knock](/bip39-word/knock/)[glow](/bip39-word/glow/)[hurt](/bip39-word/hurt/)[hawk](/bip39-word/hawk/)[hello](/bip39-word/hello/)[hero](/bip39-word/hero/)[high](/bip39-word/high/)[hip](/bip39-word/hip/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x35E

4-Letter Prefix

hint

## About "hint" in BIP39

- "hint" has 4 letters, but the first three, **"hin"**, already identify it, because **"hi"** also begins [hidden](/bip39-word/hidden/), [high](/bip39-word/high/), [hill](/bip39-word/hill/), [hip](/bip39-word/hip/), [hire](/bip39-word/hire/) and [history](/bip39-word/history/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.

## Word #863 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) mocnost 

[French](/french/) fraise 

[Italian](/italian/) iperbole 

[Japanese](/japanese/) しょどう 

[Korean](/korean/) 셋째 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) forjar 

[Spanish](/spanish/) hervir 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "H"

[ #859 hero ](/bip39-word/hero/)[ #860 hidden ](/bip39-word/hidden/)[ #861 high ](/bip39-word/high/)[ #862 hill ](/bip39-word/hill/)[ #864 hip ](/bip39-word/hip/)[ #865 hire ](/bip39-word/hire/)[ #866 history ](/bip39-word/history/)[ #867 hobby ](/bip39-word/hobby/) 

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

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