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title: "BIP39 Word #1019: leg — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/leg/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1019 01111111010 

# leg — BIP39 word #1019

"**leg**" is word #1019 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [left](/bip39-word/left/) and [legal](/bip39-word/legal/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `01111111010`, decimal index 1018\. 

/lɛg/  · _noun:_ one of the limbs that a person or animal walks and stands on 

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

## Binary Representation

Eight 1-bits and three 0-bits; 165 of the 2048 indexes have exactly eight 1-bits.

One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):

[young](/bip39-word/young/)[dismiss](/bip39-word/dismiss/)[gap](/bip39-word/gap/)[hungry](/bip39-word/hungry/)[jar](/bip39-word/jar/)[kitten](/bip39-word/kitten/)[later](/bip39-word/later/)[layer](/bip39-word/layer/)[lemon](/bip39-word/lemon/)[lecture](/bip39-word/lecture/)[legal](/bip39-word/legal/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x3FA

4-Letter Prefix

leg

## About "leg" in BIP39

- All three letters of "leg" also begin longer words: [legal](/bip39-word/legal/) and [legend](/bip39-word/legend/). So "leg" cannot be shortened, and a backup that keeps the first four letters of each word stores it as **"leg"** but legal as **"lega"**.

## Word #1019 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) obout 

[French](/french/) impérial 

[Italian](/italian/) milite 

[Japanese](/japanese/) そだてる 

[Korean](/korean/) 실시 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) iminente 

[Spanish](/spanish/) liga 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Read aloud, "leg" /lɛg/ is one sound away from this word: 

[egg /ɛg/](/bip39-word/egg/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "leg":

[legal](/bip39-word/legal/)[legend](/bip39-word/legend/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "L"

[ #1015 learn ](/bip39-word/learn/)[ #1016 leave ](/bip39-word/leave/)[ #1017 lecture ](/bip39-word/lecture/)[ #1018 left ](/bip39-word/left/)[ #1020 legal ](/bip39-word/legal/)[ #1021 legend ](/bip39-word/legend/)[ #1022 leisure ](/bip39-word/leisure/)[ #1023 lemon ](/bip39-word/lemon/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [Why You Should Never Create Your Own Seed Phrase](/why-you-should-never-create-your-own-seed-phrase/)
- [12 vs 24 Word Seed Phrase: Which Is More Secure?](/12-vs-24-word-seed-phrase/)
- [BIP 157 Client-Side Block Filtering: Compact Filters Explained](/bip-157-client-side-block-filtering/)

[ Full BIP39 Wordlist ](/)