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title: "BIP39 Word #1186: neither — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/neither/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1186 10010100001 

# neither — BIP39 word #1186

"**neither**" is word #1186 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [neglect](/bip39-word/neglect/) and [nephew](/bip39-word/nephew/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `10010100001`, decimal index 1185\. 

/ˈnaɪðə/  · _determiner:_ not one and not the other of two 

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

## 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):

[before](/bip39-word/before/)[stage](/bip39-word/stage/)[reflect](/bip39-word/reflect/)[loud](/bip39-word/loud/)[order](/bip39-word/order/)[mother](/bip39-word/mother/)[normal](/bip39-word/normal/)[news](/bip39-word/news/)[net](/bip39-word/net/)[nerve](/bip39-word/nerve/)[neglect](/bip39-word/neglect/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x4A1

4-Letter Prefix

neit

## About "neither" in BIP39

- "neither" has 7 letters, but the first three, **"nei"**, already identify it, because **"ne"** also begins 14 other words, among them [near](/bip39-word/near/), [neck](/bip39-word/neck/), [need](/bip39-word/need/) and [negative](/bip39-word/negative/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.

## Word #1186 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) pedagog 

[French](/french/) mairie 

[Italian](/italian/) osare 

[Japanese](/japanese/) ちせい 

[Korean](/korean/) 예방 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) loucura 

[Spanish](/spanish/) mover 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

 One BIP39 word differs from "neither" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand: 

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "N"

[ #1182 neck ](/bip39-word/neck/)[ #1183 need ](/bip39-word/need/)[ #1184 negative ](/bip39-word/negative/)[ #1185 neglect ](/bip39-word/neglect/)[ #1187 nephew ](/bip39-word/nephew/)[ #1188 nerve ](/bip39-word/nerve/)[ #1189 nest ](/bip39-word/nest/)[ #1190 net ](/bip39-word/net/) 

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

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