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title: "BIP39 Word #1502: roof — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/roof/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1502 10111011101 

# roof — BIP39 word #1502

"**roof**" is word #1502 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [romance](/bip39-word/romance/) and [rookie](/bip39-word/rookie/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `10111011101`, decimal index 1501\. 

/ruːf/  · _noun:_ the structure that covers the top of a building or vehicle 

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

## Binary Representation

Eight 1-bits and three 0-bits; 165 of the 2048 indexes have exactly eight 1-bits.

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

[desert](/bip39-word/desert/)[wing](/bip39-word/wing/)[option](/bip39-word/option/)[produce](/bip39-word/produce/)[recipe](/bip39-word/recipe/)[sausage](/bip39-word/sausage/)[rifle](/bip39-word/rifle/)[rival](/bip39-word/rival/)[robot](/bip39-word/robot/)[room](/bip39-word/room/)[romance](/bip39-word/romance/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x5DD

4-Letter Prefix

roof

## About "roof" in BIP39

- It takes all four letters to identify "roof": **"roo"** also begins [rookie](/bip39-word/rookie/) and [room](/bip39-word/room/).

## Word #1502 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) sesuv 

[French](/french/) plexus 

[Italian](/italian/) roditore 

[Japanese](/japanese/) ねんぶつ 

[Korean](/korean/) 절차 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) pilhado 

[Spanish](/spanish/) producto 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

[proof](/bip39-word/proof/)[room](/bip39-word/room/) 

Read aloud, "roof" /ruːf/ is one sound away from these 4 words: 

[rough /rʌf/](/bip39-word/rough/)[route /ruːt/](/bip39-word/route/)[rude /ruːd/](/bip39-word/rude/)[rule /ruːl/](/bip39-word/rule/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "roo":

[rookie](/bip39-word/rookie/)[room](/bip39-word/room/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "R"

[ #1498 robot ](/bip39-word/robot/)[ #1499 robust ](/bip39-word/robust/)[ #1500 rocket ](/bip39-word/rocket/)[ #1501 romance ](/bip39-word/romance/)[ #1503 rookie ](/bip39-word/rookie/)[ #1504 room ](/bip39-word/room/)[ #1505 rose ](/bip39-word/rose/)[ #1506 rotate ](/bip39-word/rotate/) 

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

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[ Full BIP39 Wordlist ](/)
