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title: "BIP39 Word #1552: sea — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/sea/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1552 11000001111 

# sea — BIP39 word #1552

"**sea**" is word #1552 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [scrub](/bip39-word/scrub/) and [search](/bip39-word/search/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `11000001111`, decimal index 1551\. 

/siː/  · _noun:_ the large area of salt water that covers much of the earth 

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

## 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):

[draft](/bip39-word/draft/)[limit](/bip39-word/limit/)[tiger](/bip39-word/tiger/)[spin](/bip39-word/spin/)[size](/bip39-word/size/)[shine](/bip39-word/shine/)[sentence](/bip39-word/sentence/)[science](/bip39-word/science/)[scrap](/bip39-word/scrap/)[script](/bip39-word/script/)[scrub](/bip39-word/scrub/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x60F

4-Letter Prefix

sea

## About "sea" in BIP39

- All three letters of "sea" also begin longer words: [search](/bip39-word/search/), [season](/bip39-word/season/) and [seat](/bip39-word/seat/). So "sea" cannot be shortened, and a backup that keeps the first four letters of each word stores it as **"sea"** but search as **"sear"**.

## Word #1552 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) sluch 

[French](/french/) procéder 

[Italian](/italian/) sbalzo 

[Japanese](/japanese/) はこぶ 

[Korean](/korean/) 조상 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) prefeito 

[Spanish](/spanish/) rasgo 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

 One BIP39 word differs from "sea" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand: 

[seat](/bip39-word/seat/) 

Read aloud, "sea" /siː/ is one sound away from these 9 words: 

[fee /fiː/](/bip39-word/fee/)[key /kiː/](/bip39-word/key/)[knee /niː/](/bip39-word/knee/)[say /seɪ/](/bip39-word/say/)[scene /siːn/](/bip39-word/scene/)[seed /siːd/](/bip39-word/seed/)[seek /siːk/](/bip39-word/seek/)[siege /siːʤ/](/bip39-word/siege/)[ski /skiː/](/bip39-word/ski/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "sea":

[search](/bip39-word/search/)[season](/bip39-word/season/)[seat](/bip39-word/seat/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "S"

[ #1548 scrap ](/bip39-word/scrap/)[ #1549 screen ](/bip39-word/screen/)[ #1550 script ](/bip39-word/script/)[ #1551 scrub ](/bip39-word/scrub/)[ #1553 search ](/bip39-word/search/)[ #1554 season ](/bip39-word/season/)[ #1555 seat ](/bip39-word/seat/)[ #1556 second ](/bip39-word/second/) 

[View all words starting with "S" ](/bip39-words/s/) 

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [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/)
- [Bitcoin Core Seed Phrase: Why There Is None and How to Back Up](/bitcoin-core-seed-phrase-backup-guide/)

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