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title: "BIP39 Word #1011: layer — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/layer/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1011 01111110010 

# layer — BIP39 word #1011

"**layer**" is word #1011 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [lawsuit](/bip39-word/lawsuit/) and [lazy](/bip39-word/lazy/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `01111110010`, decimal index 1010\. 

/ˈleɪə/  · _noun:_ a level or sheet of material lying over or under another 

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

## 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):

[wrestle](/bip39-word/wrestle/)[dinner](/bip39-word/dinner/)[furnace](/bip39-word/furnace/)[hour](/bip39-word/hour/)[iron](/bip39-word/iron/)[kid](/bip39-word/kid/)[labor](/bip39-word/labor/)[leg](/bip39-word/leg/)[learn](/bip39-word/learn/)[lawn](/bip39-word/lawn/)[lazy](/bip39-word/lazy/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x3F2

4-Letter Prefix

laye

## About "layer" in BIP39

- "layer" has 5 letters, but the first three, **"lay"**, 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.

## Word #1011 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) oblast 

[French](/french/) illusion 

[Italian](/italian/) mica 

[Japanese](/japanese/) そげき 

[Korean](/korean/) 신화 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) ilha 

[Spanish](/spanish/) leve 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

Read aloud, "layer" /ˈleɪə/ is one sound away from these 3 words: 

[labor /ˈleɪbə/](/bip39-word/labor/)[lake /leɪk/](/bip39-word/lake/)[liar /ˈlaɪə/](/bip39-word/liar/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "L"

[ #1007 lava ](/bip39-word/lava/)[ #1008 law ](/bip39-word/law/)[ #1009 lawn ](/bip39-word/lawn/)[ #1010 lawsuit ](/bip39-word/lawsuit/)[ #1012 lazy ](/bip39-word/lazy/)[ #1013 leader ](/bip39-word/leader/)[ #1014 leaf ](/bip39-word/leaf/)[ #1015 learn ](/bip39-word/learn/) 

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

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