--- title: "BIP39 Word #870: hole — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word" url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/hole/" language: "en" updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00" --- Word #870 01101100101 # hole — BIP39 word #870 "**hole**" is word #870 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [hold](/bip39-word/hold/) and [holiday](/bip39-word/holiday/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `01101100101`, decimal index 869\. /həʊl/ · _noun:_ an empty space or opening in something solid [Russian](/ru/ "The BIP39 wordlist with Russian translations"): дыра ## 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): [uncover](/bip39-word/uncover/)[coach](/bip39-word/coach/)[erosion](/bip39-word/erosion/)[lake](/bip39-word/lake/)[gorilla](/bip39-word/gorilla/)[hamster](/bip39-word/hamster/)[huge](/bip39-word/huge/)[horror](/bip39-word/horror/)[history](/bip39-word/history/)[hollow](/bip39-word/hollow/)[hold](/bip39-word/hold/) Position Hex Index 0x365 4-Letter Prefix hole ## About "hole" in BIP39 - It takes all four letters to identify "hole": **"hol"** also begins [hold](/bip39-word/hold/), [holiday](/bip39-word/holiday/) and [hollow](/bip39-word/hollow/). - "hole" appears in one of the 24 official English [test vectors](https://github.com/trezor/python-mnemonic/blob/master/vectors.json) of BIP39: vector #21 (word 7 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 #21 [all](/bip39-word/all/) [hour](/bip39-word/hour/) [make](/bip39-word/make/) [first](/bip39-word/first/) [leader](/bip39-word/leader/) [extend](/bip39-word/extend/) hole [alien](/bip39-word/alien/) [behind](/bip39-word/behind/) [guard](/bip39-word/guard/) [gospel](/bip39-word/gospel/) [lava](/bip39-word/lava/) [path](/bip39-word/path/) [output](/bip39-word/output/) [census](/bip39-word/census/) [museum](/bip39-word/museum/) [junior](/bip39-word/junior/) [mass](/bip39-word/mass/) [reopen](/bip39-word/reopen/) [famous](/bip39-word/famous/) [sing](/bip39-word/sing/) [advance](/bip39-word/advance/) [salt](/bip39-word/salt/) [reform](/bip39-word/reform/) ## Word #870 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists [Czech](/czech/) monarcha [French](/french/) frémir [Italian](/italian/) irrigato [Japanese](/japanese/) しんせいじ [Korean](/korean/) 소망 [Portuguese](/portuguese/) fralda [Spanish](/spanish/) historia [Traditional Chinese](/chinese-traditional/) 松 [Simplified Chinese](/chinese-simplified/) 松 ## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery 4 BIP39 words differ from "hole" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand: [hold](/bip39-word/hold/)[home](/bip39-word/home/)[hope](/bip39-word/hope/)[pole](/bip39-word/pole/) Read aloud, "hole" /həʊl/ is one sound away from these 2 words: [hill /hɪl/](/bip39-word/hill/)[soul /səʊl/](/bip39-word/soul/) Words sharing the first three letters "hol": [hold](/bip39-word/hold/)[holiday](/bip39-word/holiday/)[hollow](/bip39-word/hollow/) ## More BIP39 Words Starting with "H" [ #866 history ](/bip39-word/history/)[ #867 hobby ](/bip39-word/hobby/)[ #868 hockey ](/bip39-word/hockey/)[ #869 hold ](/bip39-word/hold/)[ #871 holiday ](/bip39-word/holiday/)[ #872 hollow ](/bip39-word/hollow/)[ #873 home ](/bip39-word/home/)[ #874 honey ](/bip39-word/honey/) [View all words starting with "H" ](/bip39-words/h/) ## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides - [Seed Phrase Examples: 12, 18 and 24 BIP39 Mnemonic Phrases](/mnemonic-words-examples-for-crypto-security-bip39/) - [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/) [ Full BIP39 Wordlist ](/)