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title: "BIP39 Word #1173: myth — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/myth/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1173 10010010100 

# myth — BIP39 word #1173

"**myth**" is word #1173 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [mystery](/bip39-word/mystery/) and [naive](/bip39-word/naive/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `10010010100`, decimal index 1172\. 

/mɪθ/  · _noun:_ an ancient traditional story, or a widely held false belief 

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

## Binary Representation

Four 1-bits and seven 0-bits; 330 of the 2048 indexes have exactly four 1-bits.

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

[barely](/bip39-word/barely/)[spoon](/bip39-word/spoon/)[raw](/bip39-word/raw/)[little](/bip39-word/little/)[once](/bip39-word/once/)[notable](/bip39-word/notable/)[mountain](/bip39-word/mountain/)[near](/bip39-word/near/)[must](/bip39-word/must/)[name](/bip39-word/name/)[naive](/bip39-word/naive/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x494

4-Letter Prefix

myth

## About "myth" in BIP39

- "myth" has 4 letters, but the first three, **"myt"**, already identify it, because **"my"** also begins [myself](/bip39-word/myself/) and [mystery](/bip39-word/mystery/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
- **"myth"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins mythique in the [French list](/french/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #1173 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) parodie 

[French](/french/) lumière 

[Italian](/italian/) organico 

[Japanese](/japanese/) ちいき 

[Korean](/korean/) 영양 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) livro 

[Spanish](/spanish/) monja 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

Read aloud, "myth" /mɪθ/ is one sound away from this word: 

[miss /mɪs/](/bip39-word/miss/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "M"

[ #1069 machine ](/bip39-word/machine/)[ #1070 mad ](/bip39-word/mad/)[ #1071 magic ](/bip39-word/magic/)[ #1072 magnet ](/bip39-word/magnet/)[ #1169 must ](/bip39-word/must/)[ #1170 mutual ](/bip39-word/mutual/)[ #1171 myself ](/bip39-word/myself/)[ #1172 mystery ](/bip39-word/mystery/) 

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

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