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title: "BIP39 Word #999: lamp — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/lamp/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #999 01111100110 

# lamp — BIP39 word #999

"**lamp**" is word #999 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [lake](/bip39-word/lake/) and [language](/bip39-word/language/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `01111100110`, decimal index 998\. 

/læmp/  · _noun:_ a device that gives light, using electricity, oil or gas 

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

## 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):

[wolf](/bip39-word/wolf/)[devote](/bip39-word/devote/)[fresh](/bip39-word/fresh/)[holiday](/bip39-word/holiday/)[inquiry](/bip39-word/inquiry/)[juice](/bip39-word/juice/)[learn](/bip39-word/learn/)[lava](/bip39-word/lava/)[labor](/bip39-word/labor/)[lady](/bip39-word/lady/)[language](/bip39-word/language/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x3E6

4-Letter Prefix

lamp

## About "lamp" in BIP39

- "lamp" has 4 letters, but the first three, **"lam"**, already identify it, because **"la"** also begins 19 other words, among them [lab](/bip39-word/lab/), [label](/bip39-word/label/), [labor](/bip39-word/labor/) and [ladder](/bip39-word/ladder/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
- **"lamp"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins lampe in the [French list](/french/), lampo in the [Italian list](/italian/), lampejo in the [Portuguese list](/portuguese/) and lampa in the [Czech list](/czech/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #999 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) obarvit 

[French](/french/) humble 

[Italian](/italian/) mensola 

[Japanese](/japanese/) そうがんきょう 

[Korean](/korean/) 신고 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) honesto 

[Spanish](/spanish/) leer 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

 3 BIP39 words differ from "lamp" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand: 

[camp](/bip39-word/camp/)[damp](/bip39-word/damp/)[ramp](/bip39-word/ramp/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "L"

[ #995 labor ](/bip39-word/labor/)[ #996 ladder ](/bip39-word/ladder/)[ #997 lady ](/bip39-word/lady/)[ #998 lake ](/bip39-word/lake/)[ #1000 language ](/bip39-word/language/)[ #1001 laptop ](/bip39-word/laptop/)[ #1002 large ](/bip39-word/large/)[ #1003 later ](/bip39-word/later/) 

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

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