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title: "BIP39 Word #872: hollow — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/hollow/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #872 01101100111 

# hollow — BIP39 word #872

"**hollow**" is word #872 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [holiday](/bip39-word/holiday/) and [home](/bip39-word/home/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `01101100111`, decimal index 871\. 

/ˈhɒləʊ/  · _adjective:_ having an empty space inside 

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

## 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):

[undo](/bip39-word/undo/)[coconut](/bip39-word/coconut/)[erupt](/bip39-word/erupt/)[language](/bip39-word/language/)[gossip](/bip39-word/gossip/)[happy](/bip39-word/happy/)[humble](/bip39-word/humble/)[hospital](/bip39-word/hospital/)[hockey](/bip39-word/hockey/)[hole](/bip39-word/hole/)[holiday](/bip39-word/holiday/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x367

4-Letter Prefix

holl

## About "hollow" in BIP39

- "hollow" has 6 letters, but the first four, **"holl"**, already identify it, because **"hol"** also begins [hold](/bip39-word/hold/), [hole](/bip39-word/hole/) and [holiday](/bip39-word/holiday/).

## Word #872 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) monstrum 

[French](/french/) frère 

[Italian](/italian/) isolato 

[Japanese](/japanese/) しんりん 

[Korean](/korean/) 소설 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) frasco 

[Spanish](/spanish/) hogar 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

Read aloud, "hollow" /ˈhɒləʊ/ is one sound away from this word: 

[hello /hɛˈləʊ/](/bip39-word/hello/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "hol":

[hold](/bip39-word/hold/)[hole](/bip39-word/hole/)[holiday](/bip39-word/holiday/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "H"

[ #868 hockey ](/bip39-word/hockey/)[ #869 hold ](/bip39-word/hold/)[ #870 hole ](/bip39-word/hole/)[ #871 holiday ](/bip39-word/holiday/)[ #873 home ](/bip39-word/home/)[ #874 honey ](/bip39-word/honey/)[ #875 hood ](/bip39-word/hood/)[ #876 hope ](/bip39-word/hope/) 

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

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