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title: "BIP39 Word #1233: old — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/old/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1233 10011010000 

# old — BIP39 word #1233

"**old**" is word #1233 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [okay](/bip39-word/okay/) and [olive](/bip39-word/olive/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `10011010000`, decimal index 1232\. 

/əʊld/  · _adjective:_ having lived or existed for a long time 

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

## 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):

[borrow](/bip39-word/borrow/)[sure](/bip39-word/sure/)[ring](/bip39-word/ring/)[meat](/bip39-word/meat/)[must](/bip39-word/must/)[own](/bip39-word/own/)[object](/bip39-word/object/)[only](/bip39-word/only/)[once](/bip39-word/once/)[olympic](/bip39-word/olympic/)[olive](/bip39-word/olive/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x4D0

4-Letter Prefix

old

## About "old" in BIP39

- It takes all three letters to identify "old": **"ol"** also begins [olive](/bip39-word/olive/) and [olympic](/bip39-word/olympic/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.

## Word #1233 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) plocha 

[French](/french/) mercredi 

[Italian](/italian/) partire 

[Japanese](/japanese/) つつむ 

[Korean](/korean/) 왠지 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) marreco 

[Spanish](/spanish/) nevar 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

[fold](/bip39-word/fold/)[gold](/bip39-word/gold/)[hold](/bip39-word/hold/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "O"

[ #1229 office ](/bip39-word/office/)[ #1230 often ](/bip39-word/often/)[ #1231 oil ](/bip39-word/oil/)[ #1232 okay ](/bip39-word/okay/)[ #1234 olive ](/bip39-word/olive/)[ #1235 olympic ](/bip39-word/olympic/)[ #1236 omit ](/bip39-word/omit/)[ #1237 once ](/bip39-word/once/) 

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

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