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title: "BIP39 Word #950: issue — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/issue/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #950 01110110101 

# issue — BIP39 word #950

"**issue**" is word #950 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [isolate](/bip39-word/isolate/) and [item](/bip39-word/item/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `01110110101`, decimal index 949\. 

/ˈɪʃuː/  · _noun:_ an important topic or problem, or one edition of a magazine 

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

## 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):

[wall](/bip39-word/wall/)[cute](/bip39-word/cute/)[find](/bip39-word/find/)[grit](/bip39-word/grit/)[leaf](/bip39-word/leaf/)[increase](/bip39-word/increase/)[input](/bip39-word/input/)[jeans](/bip39-word/jeans/)[involve](/bip39-word/involve/)[ivory](/bip39-word/ivory/)[isolate](/bip39-word/isolate/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x3B5

4-Letter Prefix

issu

## About "issue" in BIP39

- "issue" has 5 letters, but the first three, **"iss"**, already identify it, because **"is"** also begins [island](/bip39-word/island/) and [isolate](/bip39-word/isolate/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.

## Word #950 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) nedaleko 

[French](/french/) grutier 

[Italian](/italian/) macero 

[Japanese](/japanese/) せつび 

[Korean](/korean/) 슬쩍 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) gracejo 

[Spanish](/spanish/) joya 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

Read aloud, "issue" /ˈɪʃuː/ is one sound away from this word: 

[shoe /ʃuː/](/bip39-word/shoe/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "I"

[ #898 ice ](/bip39-word/ice/)[ #899 icon ](/bip39-word/icon/)[ #946 involve ](/bip39-word/involve/)[ #947 iron ](/bip39-word/iron/)[ #948 island ](/bip39-word/island/)[ #949 isolate ](/bip39-word/isolate/)[ #951 item ](/bip39-word/item/)[ #952 ivory ](/bip39-word/ivory/) 

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

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