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title: "BIP39 Word #1154: mother — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/mother/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1154 10010000001 

# mother — BIP39 word #1154

"**mother**" is word #1154 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [mosquito](/bip39-word/mosquito/) and [motion](/bip39-word/motion/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `10010000001`, decimal index 1153\. 

/ˈmʌðə/  · _noun:_ a woman in relation to her child or children 

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

## Binary Representation

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

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

[awake](/bip39-word/awake/)[south](/bip39-word/south/)[rabbit](/bip39-word/rabbit/)[lens](/bip39-word/lens/)[oblige](/bip39-word/oblige/)[neither](/bip39-word/neither/)[mutual](/bip39-word/mutual/)[muffin](/bip39-word/muffin/)[mouse](/bip39-word/mouse/)[motor](/bip39-word/motor/)[mosquito](/bip39-word/mosquito/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x481

4-Letter Prefix

moth

## About "mother" in BIP39

- "mother" has 6 letters, but the first four, **"moth"**, already identify it, because **"mot"** also begins [motion](/bip39-word/motion/) and [motor](/bip39-word/motor/).

## Word #1154 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) pachatel 

[French](/french/) litige 

[Italian](/italian/) ombelico 

[Japanese](/japanese/) だんせい 

[Korean](/korean/) 연인 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) letreiro 

[Spanish](/spanish/) misa 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

Words sharing the first three letters "mot":

[motion](/bip39-word/motion/)[motor](/bip39-word/motor/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "M"

[ #1150 moral ](/bip39-word/moral/)[ #1151 more ](/bip39-word/more/)[ #1152 morning ](/bip39-word/morning/)[ #1153 mosquito ](/bip39-word/mosquito/)[ #1155 motion ](/bip39-word/motion/)[ #1156 motor ](/bip39-word/motor/)[ #1157 mountain ](/bip39-word/mountain/)[ #1158 mouse ](/bip39-word/mouse/) 

[View all words starting with "M" ](/bip39-words/m/) 

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