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title: "BIP39 Word #1493: ritual — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/ritual/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1493 10111010100 

# ritual — BIP39 word #1493

"**ritual**" is word #1493 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [risk](/bip39-word/risk/) and [rival](/bip39-word/rival/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `10111010100`, decimal index 1492\. 

/ˈrɪʧʊəl/  · _noun:_ a set of actions performed regularly, especially in a ceremony 

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

## Binary Representation

Six 1-bits and five 0-bits; 462 of the 2048 indexes have exactly six 1-bits.

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

[dentist](/bip39-word/dentist/)[whisper](/bip39-word/whisper/)[once](/bip39-word/once/)[pride](/bip39-word/pride/)[raw](/bip39-word/raw/)[salon](/bip39-word/salon/)[review](/bip39-word/review/)[romance](/bip39-word/romance/)[ring](/bip39-word/ring/)[river](/bip39-word/river/)[rival](/bip39-word/rival/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x5D4

4-Letter Prefix

ritu

## About "ritual" in BIP39

- "ritual" has 6 letters, but the first three, **"rit"**, already identify it, because **"ri"** also begins 15 other words, among them [rib](/bip39-word/rib/), [ribbon](/bip39-word/ribbon/), [rice](/bip39-word/rice/) and [rich](/bip39-word/rich/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
- **"ritu"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins rituel in the [French list](/french/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #1493 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) sekvoje 

[French](/french/) pizza 

[Italian](/italian/) rivolto 

[Japanese](/japanese/) ねんおし 

[Korean](/korean/) 전철 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) pescado 

[Spanish](/spanish/) preso 

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

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "R"

[ #1489 ring ](/bip39-word/ring/)[ #1490 riot ](/bip39-word/riot/)[ #1491 ripple ](/bip39-word/ripple/)[ #1492 risk ](/bip39-word/risk/)[ #1494 rival ](/bip39-word/rival/)[ #1495 river ](/bip39-word/river/)[ #1496 road ](/bip39-word/road/)[ #1497 roast ](/bip39-word/roast/) 

[View all words starting with "R" ](/bip39-words/r/) 

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