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title: "BIP39 Word #937: insect — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/insect/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #937 01110101000 

# insect — BIP39 word #937

"**insect**" is word #937 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [insane](/bip39-word/insane/) and [inside](/bip39-word/inside/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `01110101000`, decimal index 936\. 

/ˈɪnsɛkt/  · _noun:_ a small creature with six legs and a body in three parts 

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

## 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):

[vital](/bip39-word/vital/)[crush](/bip39-word/crush/)[fence](/bip39-word/fence/)[govern](/bip39-word/govern/)[laptop](/bip39-word/laptop/)[illegal](/bip39-word/illegal/)[jacket](/bip39-word/jacket/)[inject](/bip39-word/inject/)[intact](/bip39-word/intact/)[inspire](/bip39-word/inspire/)[inside](/bip39-word/inside/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x3A8

4-Letter Prefix

inse

## About "insect" in BIP39

- "insect" has 6 letters, but the first four, **"inse"**, already identify it, because **"ins"** also begins [insane](/bip39-word/insane/), [inside](/bip39-word/inside/), [inspire](/bip39-word/inspire/) and [install](/bip39-word/install/).
- **"inse"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins insecte in the [French list](/french/), insecto in the [Spanish list](/spanish/), insetto in the [Italian list](/italian/) and inseto in the [Portuguese list](/portuguese/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #937 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) narychlo 

[French](/french/) grand 

[Italian](/italian/) lotteria 

[Japanese](/japanese/) せすじ 

[Korean](/korean/) 술병 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) glicose 

[Spanish](/spanish/) jabón 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

Words sharing the first three letters "ins":

[insane](/bip39-word/insane/)[inside](/bip39-word/inside/)[inspire](/bip39-word/inspire/)[install](/bip39-word/install/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "I"

[ #933 innocent ](/bip39-word/innocent/)[ #934 input ](/bip39-word/input/)[ #935 inquiry ](/bip39-word/inquiry/)[ #936 insane ](/bip39-word/insane/)[ #938 inside ](/bip39-word/inside/)[ #939 inspire ](/bip39-word/inspire/)[ #940 install ](/bip39-word/install/)[ #941 intact ](/bip39-word/intact/) 

[View all words starting with "I" ](/bip39-words/i/) 

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [BIP39 vs BIP32 vs BIP44: How the Seed Standards Fit Together](/crypto-seed-standards-bip39-vs-bip32-vs-bip44/)
- [How to Memorize a Seed Phrase: Color, Story and Palace Methods](/seed-phrase-memory/)
- [What Is a Seed Phrase? How a Recovery Phrase Works](/recovery-seed-phrase-guide/)

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