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title: "BIP39 Word #1216: obey — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/obey/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1216 10010111111 

# obey — BIP39 word #1216

"**obey**" is word #1216 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [oak](/bip39-word/oak/) and [object](/bip39-word/object/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `10010111111`, decimal index 1215\. 

/əˈbeɪ/  · _verb:_ to do what a person, law or rule tells you to do 

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

## Binary Representation

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

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

[blood](/bip39-word/blood/)[subject](/bip39-word/subject/)[retire](/bip39-word/retire/)[margin](/bip39-word/margin/)[paper](/bip39-word/paper/)[negative](/bip39-word/negative/)[nominee](/bip39-word/nominee/)[notice](/bip39-word/notice/)[number](/bip39-word/number/)[nut](/bip39-word/nut/)[oak](/bip39-word/oak/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x4BF

4-Letter Prefix

obey

## About "obey" in BIP39

- "obey" has 4 letters, but the first three, **"obe"**, already identify it, because **"ob"** also begins [object](/bip39-word/object/), [oblige](/bip39-word/oblige/), [obscure](/bip39-word/obscure/), [observe](/bip39-word/observe/), [obtain](/bip39-word/obtain/) and [obvious](/bip39-word/obvious/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.

## Word #1216 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) placenta 

[French](/french/) maximal 

[Italian](/italian/) palazzina 

[Japanese](/japanese/) ちんもく 

[Korean](/korean/) 옥수수 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) manequim 

[Spanish](/spanish/) nasal 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Read aloud, "obey" /əˈbeɪ/ is one sound away from this word: 

[away /əˈweɪ/](/bip39-word/away/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "O"

[ #1215 oak ](/bip39-word/oak/)[ #1217 object ](/bip39-word/object/)[ #1218 oblige ](/bip39-word/oblige/)[ #1219 obscure ](/bip39-word/obscure/)[ #1220 observe ](/bip39-word/observe/)[ #1267 oxygen ](/bip39-word/oxygen/)[ #1268 oyster ](/bip39-word/oyster/)[ #1269 ozone ](/bip39-word/ozone/) 

[View all words starting with "O" ](/bip39-words/o/) 

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