--- title: "BIP39 Word #873: home — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word" url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/home/" language: "en" updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00" --- Word #873 01101101000 # home — BIP39 word #873 "**home**" is word #873 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [hollow](/bip39-word/hollow/) and [honey](/bip39-word/honey/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `01101101000`, decimal index 872\. /həʊm/ · _noun:_ the place where someone lives [Russian](/ru/ "The BIP39 wordlist with Russian translations"): дом ## 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): [unfair](/bip39-word/unfair/)[code](/bip39-word/code/)[escape](/bip39-word/escape/)[laptop](/bip39-word/laptop/)[govern](/bip39-word/govern/)[harbor](/bip39-word/harbor/)[humor](/bip39-word/humor/)[hire](/bip39-word/hire/)[horn](/bip39-word/horn/)[hood](/bip39-word/hood/)[honey](/bip39-word/honey/) Position Hex Index 0x368 4-Letter Prefix home ## About "home" in BIP39 - "home" has 4 letters, but the first three, **"hom"**, already identify it, because **"ho"** also begins 17 other words, among them [hobby](/bip39-word/hobby/), [hockey](/bip39-word/hockey/), [hold](/bip39-word/hold/) and [hole](/bip39-word/hole/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words. - **"home"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins homem in the [Portuguese list](/portuguese/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses. ## Word #873 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists [Czech](/czech/) montovat [French](/french/) friable [Italian](/italian/) isotopo [Japanese](/japanese/) すあげ [Korean](/korean/) 소속 [Portuguese](/portuguese/) fraterno [Spanish](/spanish/) hoguera [Traditional Chinese](/chinese-traditional/) 異 [Simplified Chinese](/chinese-simplified/) 异 ## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery 3 BIP39 words differ from "home" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand: [come](/bip39-word/come/)[hole](/bip39-word/hole/)[hope](/bip39-word/hope/) Read aloud, "home" /həʊm/ is one sound away from this word: [foam /fəʊm/](/bip39-word/foam/) ## More BIP39 Words Starting with "H" [ #869 hold ](/bip39-word/hold/)[ #870 hole ](/bip39-word/hole/)[ #871 holiday ](/bip39-word/holiday/)[ #872 hollow ](/bip39-word/hollow/)[ #874 honey ](/bip39-word/honey/)[ #875 hood ](/bip39-word/hood/)[ #876 hope ](/bip39-word/hope/)[ #877 horn ](/bip39-word/horn/) [View all words starting with "H" ](/bip39-words/h/) ## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides - [Recover Lost Bitcoin: Find Wallet Backups and Seed Phrases](/recover-lost-bitcoin-find-wallet-backups/) - [Seed Phrase vs Private Key: What's the Difference?](/seed-phrase-vs-private-key/) - [Private Key QR Code Risks: Why Online Generators Are Unsafe](/qr-code-private-key-security-risks/) [ Full BIP39 Wordlist ](/)