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title: "BIP39 Word #1177: narrow — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/narrow/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1177 10010011000 

# narrow — BIP39 word #1177

"**narrow**" is word #1177 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [napkin](/bip39-word/napkin/) and [nasty](/bip39-word/nasty/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `10010011000`, decimal index 1176\. 

/ˈnærəʊ/  · _adjective:_ small in width compared with length 

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

## 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):

[basic](/bip39-word/basic/)[spread](/bip39-word/spread/)[reason](/bip39-word/reason/)[loan](/bip39-word/loan/)[only](/bip39-word/only/)[novel](/bip39-word/novel/)[much](/bip39-word/much/)[must](/bip39-word/must/)[near](/bip39-word/near/)[nation](/bip39-word/nation/)[nasty](/bip39-word/nasty/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x498

4-Letter Prefix

narr

## About "narrow" in BIP39

- "narrow" has 6 letters, but the first three, **"nar"**, already identify it, because **"na"** also begins [naive](/bip39-word/naive/), [name](/bip39-word/name/), [napkin](/bip39-word/napkin/), [nasty](/bip39-word/nasty/), [nation](/bip39-word/nation/) and [nature](/bip39-word/nature/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
- **"narr"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins narrer in the [French list](/french/), narrar in the [Spanish list](/spanish/), narrato in the [Italian list](/italian/) and narrado in the [Portuguese list](/portuguese/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
- "narrow" appears in one of the 24 official English [test vectors](https://github.com/trezor/python-mnemonic/blob/master/vectors.json) of BIP39: vector #14 (word 17 of 18). Every official vector passes the [checksum checker](/bip39-checksum-checker/), and [How BIP39 works](/how-bip39-works/) shows how the entropy turns into such words.

Official test vector #14

[gravity](/bip39-word/gravity/) [machine](/bip39-word/machine/) [north](/bip39-word/north/) [sort](/bip39-word/sort/) [system](/bip39-word/system/) [female](/bip39-word/female/) [filter](/bip39-word/filter/) [attitude](/bip39-word/attitude/) [volume](/bip39-word/volume/) [fold](/bip39-word/fold/) [club](/bip39-word/club/) [stay](/bip39-word/stay/) [feature](/bip39-word/feature/) [office](/bip39-word/office/) [ecology](/bip39-word/ecology/) [stable](/bip39-word/stable/) narrow [fog](/bip39-word/fog/) 

## Word #1177 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) paseka 

[French](/french/) lutter 

[Italian](/italian/) ormeggio 

[Japanese](/japanese/) ちから 

[Korean](/korean/) 영하 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) locutor 

[Spanish](/spanish/) morder 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "N"

[ #1174 naive ](/bip39-word/naive/)[ #1175 name ](/bip39-word/name/)[ #1176 napkin ](/bip39-word/napkin/)[ #1178 nasty ](/bip39-word/nasty/)[ #1179 nation ](/bip39-word/nation/)[ #1180 nature ](/bip39-word/nature/)[ #1181 near ](/bip39-word/near/)[ #1214 nut ](/bip39-word/nut/) 

[View all words starting with "N" ](/bip39-words/n/) 

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [BIP38 Encrypted Private Keys: 6P Format and How to Decrypt](/bip38/)
- [BIP39 Passphrase: How the 25th Word Creates a Hidden Wallet](/bip39-passphrase/)
- [Is My Seed Phrase Compromised? Signs and What to Do Next](/bip39-seed-phrase-compromise/)

[ Full BIP39 Wordlist ](/)