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title: "BIP39 Word #1301: penalty — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/penalty/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1301 10100010100 

# penalty — BIP39 word #1301

"**penalty**" is word #1301 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [pen](/bip39-word/pen/) and [pencil](/bip39-word/pencil/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `10100010100`, decimal index 1300\. 

/ˈpɛnlti/  · _noun:_ a punishment for breaking a rule or law 

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

## 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):

[card](/bip39-word/card/)[tip](/bip39-word/tip/)[little](/bip39-word/little/)[raw](/bip39-word/raw/)[pride](/bip39-word/pride/)[pledge](/bip39-word/pledge/)[party](/bip39-word/party/)[phone](/bip39-word/phone/)[pear](/bip39-word/pear/)[people](/bip39-word/people/)[pencil](/bip39-word/pencil/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x514

4-Letter Prefix

pena

## About "penalty" in BIP39

- "penalty" has 7 letters, but the first four, **"pena"**, already identify it, because **"pen"** also begins [pen](/bip39-word/pen/) and [pencil](/bip39-word/pencil/).
- Its first letters also spell another BIP39 word, [pen](/bip39-word/pen/). Write "penalty" out in full: cut short, it turns into a different valid word.
- **"pena"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins pena in the [Spanish list](/spanish/), penare in the [Italian list](/italian/) and penalta in the [Czech list](/czech/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #1301 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) posila 

[French](/french/) natation 

[Italian](/italian/) pitone 

[Japanese](/japanese/) でんあつ 

[Korean](/korean/) 육체 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) mordomo 

[Spanish](/spanish/) olivo 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Words sharing the first three letters "pen":

[pen](/bip39-word/pen/)[pencil](/bip39-word/pencil/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "P"

[ #1297 pear ](/bip39-word/pear/)[ #1298 peasant ](/bip39-word/peasant/)[ #1299 pelican ](/bip39-word/pelican/)[ #1300 pen ](/bip39-word/pen/)[ #1302 pencil ](/bip39-word/pencil/)[ #1303 people ](/bip39-word/people/)[ #1304 pepper ](/bip39-word/pepper/)[ #1305 perfect ](/bip39-word/perfect/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [Why You Should Never Create Your Own Seed Phrase](/why-you-should-never-create-your-own-seed-phrase/)
- [12 vs 24 Word Seed Phrase: Which Is More Secure?](/12-vs-24-word-seed-phrase/)
- [BIP 157 Client-Side Block Filtering: Compact Filters Explained](/bip-157-client-side-block-filtering/)

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