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title: "BIP39 Word #996: ladder — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/ladder/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #996 01111100011 

# ladder — BIP39 word #996

"**ladder**" is word #996 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [labor](/bip39-word/labor/) and [lady](/bip39-word/lady/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `01111100011`, decimal index 995\. 

/ˈlædə/  · _noun:_ a frame with steps between two long sides, used for climbing 

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

## 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):

[wise](/bip39-word/wise/)[detect](/bip39-word/detect/)[fragile](/bip39-word/fragile/)[hockey](/bip39-word/hockey/)[inner](/bip39-word/inner/)[journey](/bip39-word/journey/)[lazy](/bip39-word/lazy/)[latin](/bip39-word/latin/)[language](/bip39-word/language/)[label](/bip39-word/label/)[labor](/bip39-word/labor/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x3E3

4-Letter Prefix

ladd

## About "ladder" in BIP39

- "ladder" has 6 letters, but the first four, **"ladd"**, already identify it, because **"lad"** also begins [lady](/bip39-word/lady/).
- **"ladd"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins laddove in the [Italian list](/italian/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
- "ladder" appears in one of the 24 official English [test vectors](https://github.com/trezor/python-mnemonic/blob/master/vectors.json) of BIP39: vector #22 (word 2 of 12). Every official vector passes the [checksum checker](/bip39-checksum-checker/), and [How BIP39 works](/how-bip39-works/) shows how the entropy turns into such words.

Official test vector #22

[vessel](/bip39-word/vessel/) ladder [alter](/bip39-word/alter/) [error](/bip39-word/error/) [federal](/bip39-word/federal/) [sibling](/bip39-word/sibling/) [chat](/bip39-word/chat/) [ability](/bip39-word/ability/) [sun](/bip39-word/sun/) [glass](/bip39-word/glass/) [valve](/bip39-word/valve/) [picture](/bip39-word/picture/) 

## Word #996 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) nutrie 

[French](/french/) hublot 

[Italian](/italian/) melodia 

[Japanese](/japanese/) そあく 

[Korean](/korean/) 식초 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) hoje 

[Spanish](/spanish/) lección 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Read aloud, "ladder" /ˈlædə/ is one sound away from this word: 

[leader /ˈliːdə/](/bip39-word/leader/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "lad":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "L"

[ #993 lab ](/bip39-word/lab/)[ #994 label ](/bip39-word/label/)[ #995 labor ](/bip39-word/labor/)[ #997 lady ](/bip39-word/lady/)[ #998 lake ](/bip39-word/lake/)[ #999 lamp ](/bip39-word/lamp/)[ #1000 language ](/bip39-word/language/)[ #1068 lyrics ](/bip39-word/lyrics/) 

[View all words starting with "L" ](/bip39-words/l/) 

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