---
title: "BIP39 Word #888: humble — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/humble/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
---

Word #888 01101110111 

# humble — BIP39 word #888

"**humble**" is word #888 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [human](/bip39-word/human/) and [humor](/bip39-word/humor/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `01101110111`, decimal index 887\. 

/ˈhʌmbᵊl/  · _adjective:_ not proud, or of low rank or importance 

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

## Binary Representation

Eight 1-bits and three 0-bits; 165 of the 2048 indexes have exactly eight 1-bits.

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

[upon](/bip39-word/upon/)[confirm](/bip39-word/confirm/)[exclude](/bip39-word/exclude/)[leave](/bip39-word/leave/)[group](/bip39-word/group/)[helmet](/bip39-word/helmet/)[hollow](/bip39-word/hollow/)[husband](/bip39-word/husband/)[hover](/bip39-word/hover/)[huge](/bip39-word/huge/)[human](/bip39-word/human/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x377

4-Letter Prefix

humb

## About "humble" in BIP39

- "humble" has 6 letters, but the first four, **"humb"**, already identify it, because **"hum"** also begins [human](/bip39-word/human/) and [humor](/bip39-word/humor/).
- The same spelling is in the [French BIP39 wordlist](/french/), but as word #999 (index 998), not #888\. A wallet set to French reads "humble" as **01111100110** instead of **01101110111**, and decodes index 887 as "futur".

## Word #888 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) mrkev 

[French](/french/) futur 

[Italian](/italian/) lancetta 

[Japanese](/japanese/) すくない 

[Korean](/korean/) 손녀 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) funil 

[Spanish](/spanish/) huevo 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

Words sharing the first three letters "hum":

[human](/bip39-word/human/)[humor](/bip39-word/humor/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "H"

[ #884 hover ](/bip39-word/hover/)[ #885 hub ](/bip39-word/hub/)[ #886 huge ](/bip39-word/huge/)[ #887 human ](/bip39-word/human/)[ #889 humor ](/bip39-word/humor/)[ #890 hundred ](/bip39-word/hundred/)[ #891 hungry ](/bip39-word/hungry/)[ #892 hunt ](/bip39-word/hunt/) 

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

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[ Full BIP39 Wordlist ](/)