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title: "BIP39 Word #1204: nose — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/nose/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1204 10010110011 

# nose — BIP39 word #1204

"**nose**" is word #1204 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [north](/bip39-word/north/) and [notable](/bip39-word/notable/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `10010110011`, decimal index 1203\. 

/nəʊz/  · _noun:_ the part of the face used for breathing and smelling 

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

## Binary Representation

Six 1-bits and five 0-bits; 462 of the 2048 indexes have exactly six 1-bits.

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

[biology](/bip39-word/biology/)[stool](/bip39-word/stool/)[reopen](/bip39-word/reopen/)[major](/bip39-word/major/)[oyster](/bip39-word/oyster/)[mystery](/bip39-word/mystery/)[nerve](/bip39-word/nerve/)[number](/bip39-word/number/)[notice](/bip39-word/notice/)[normal](/bip39-word/normal/)[north](/bip39-word/north/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x4B3

4-Letter Prefix

nose

## About "nose" in BIP39

- "nose" has 4 letters, but the first three, **"nos"**, already identify it, because **"no"** also begins 12 other words, among them [noble](/bip39-word/noble/), [noise](/bip39-word/noise/), [nominee](/bip39-word/nominee/) and [noodle](/bip39-word/noodle/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.

## Word #1204 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) pikle 

[French](/french/) maritime 

[Italian](/italian/) ovocito 

[Japanese](/japanese/) ちゃんこなべ 

[Korean](/korean/) 오른발 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) maior 

[Spanish](/spanish/) músculo 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

 4 BIP39 words differ from "nose" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand: 

[dose](/bip39-word/dose/)[noise](/bip39-word/noise/)[note](/bip39-word/note/)[rose](/bip39-word/rose/) 

Read aloud, "nose" /nəʊz/ is one sound away from this word: 

[know /nəʊ/](/bip39-word/know/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "N"

[ #1200 nominee ](/bip39-word/nominee/)[ #1201 noodle ](/bip39-word/noodle/)[ #1202 normal ](/bip39-word/normal/)[ #1203 north ](/bip39-word/north/)[ #1205 notable ](/bip39-word/notable/)[ #1206 note ](/bip39-word/note/)[ #1207 nothing ](/bip39-word/nothing/)[ #1208 notice ](/bip39-word/notice/) 

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

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- [What Is a Seed Phrase? How a Recovery Phrase Works](/recovery-seed-phrase-guide/)
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