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title: "BIP39 Word #1299: pelican — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/pelican/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1299 10100010010 

# pelican — BIP39 word #1299

"**pelican**" is word #1299 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [peasant](/bip39-word/peasant/) and [pen](/bip39-word/pen/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `10100010010`, decimal index 1298\. 

/ˈpɛlɪkᵊn/  · _noun:_ a large water bird with a pouch under its long beak 

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

## 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):

[car](/bip39-word/car/)[time](/bip39-word/time/)[liquid](/bip39-word/liquid/)[rather](/bip39-word/rather/)[prevent](/bip39-word/prevent/)[play](/bip39-word/play/)[park](/bip39-word/park/)[person](/bip39-word/person/)[people](/bip39-word/people/)[pear](/bip39-word/pear/)[pen](/bip39-word/pen/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x512

4-Letter Prefix

peli

## About "pelican" in BIP39

- "pelican" has 7 letters, but the first three, **"pel"**, already identify it, because **"pe"** also begins 13 other words, among them [peace](/bip39-word/peace/), [peanut](/bip39-word/peanut/), [pear](/bip39-word/pear/) and [peasant](/bip39-word/peasant/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
- **"peli"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins peligro in the [Spanish list](/spanish/) and pelicano in the [Portuguese list](/portuguese/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #1299 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) posadit 

[French](/french/) narquois 

[Italian](/italian/) pirite 

[Japanese](/japanese/) てわけ 

[Korean](/korean/) 육상 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) morango 

[Spanish](/spanish/) oleada 

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

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "P"

[ #1295 peace ](/bip39-word/peace/)[ #1296 peanut ](/bip39-word/peanut/)[ #1297 pear ](/bip39-word/pear/)[ #1298 peasant ](/bip39-word/peasant/)[ #1300 pen ](/bip39-word/pen/)[ #1301 penalty ](/bip39-word/penalty/)[ #1302 pencil ](/bip39-word/pencil/)[ #1303 people ](/bip39-word/people/) 

[View all words starting with "P" ](/bip39-words/p/) 

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [Derivation Path Explained: What m/44'/0'/0'/0/0 Means](/derivation-path/)
- [Seed Phrase Scams: How Thieves Get Your Recovery Words](/seed-phrase-scams/)
- [How to Store a Seed Phrase: Paper, Steel and Safe Locations](/store-a-seed-phrase/)

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