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title: "BIP39 Word #1268: oyster — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/oyster/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1268 10011110011 

# oyster — BIP39 word #1268

"**oyster**" is word #1268 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [oxygen](/bip39-word/oxygen/) and [ozone](/bip39-word/ozone/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `10011110011`, decimal index 1267\. 

/ˈɔɪstə/  · _noun:_ a flat shellfish with a rough shell, sometimes containing a pearl 

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

## Binary Representation

Seven 1-bits and four 0-bits; 330 of the 2048 indexes have exactly seven 1-bits.

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

[bunker](/bip39-word/bunker/)[taxi](/bip39-word/taxi/)[salmon](/bip39-word/salmon/)[mobile](/bip39-word/mobile/)[nose](/bip39-word/nose/)[omit](/bip39-word/omit/)[organ](/bip39-word/organ/)[panda](/bip39-word/panda/)[page](/bip39-word/page/)[owner](/bip39-word/owner/)[oxygen](/bip39-word/oxygen/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x4F3

4-Letter Prefix

oyst

## About "oyster" in BIP39

- Two letters are enough: no other BIP39 word begins with **"oy"**, which makes "oyster" one of only 34 words that can be told apart this early.

## Word #1268 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) pokles 

[French](/french/) montagne 

[Italian](/italian/) pesatore 

[Japanese](/japanese/) てうち 

[Korean](/korean/) 워낙 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) mexer 

[Spanish](/spanish/) objeto 

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

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "O"

[ #1215 oak ](/bip39-word/oak/)[ #1216 obey ](/bip39-word/obey/)[ #1217 object ](/bip39-word/object/)[ #1264 over ](/bip39-word/over/)[ #1265 own ](/bip39-word/own/)[ #1266 owner ](/bip39-word/owner/)[ #1267 oxygen ](/bip39-word/oxygen/)[ #1269 ozone ](/bip39-word/ozone/) 

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

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