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title: "BIP39 Word #1561: seek — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/seek/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1561 11000011000 

# seek — BIP39 word #1561

"**seek**" is word #1561 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [seed](/bip39-word/seed/) and [segment](/bip39-word/segment/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `11000011000`, decimal index 1560\. 

/siːk/  · _verb:_ to try to find or get something 

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

## 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):

[drink](/bip39-word/drink/)[loan](/bip39-word/loan/)[toast](/bip39-word/toast/)[spread](/bip39-word/spread/)[slam](/bip39-word/slam/)[shove](/bip39-word/shove/)[scissors](/bip39-word/scissors/)[search](/bip39-word/search/)[seminar](/bip39-word/seminar/)[select](/bip39-word/select/)[segment](/bip39-word/segment/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x618

4-Letter Prefix

seek

## About "seek" in BIP39

- It takes all four letters to identify "seek": **"see"** also begins [seed](/bip39-word/seed/).

## Word #1561 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) smog 

[French](/french/) prospère 

[Italian](/italian/) sbrinare 

[Japanese](/japanese/) はたん 

[Korean](/korean/) 졸음 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) princesa 

[Spanish](/spanish/) rebote 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

Read aloud, "seek" /siːk/ is one sound away from these 7 words: 

[scene /siːn/](/bip39-word/scene/)[sea /siː/](/bip39-word/sea/)[seat /siːt/](/bip39-word/seat/)[sick /sɪk/](/bip39-word/sick/)[siege /siːʤ/](/bip39-word/siege/)[sock /sɒk/](/bip39-word/sock/)[speak /spiːk/](/bip39-word/speak/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "see":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "S"

[ #1557 secret ](/bip39-word/secret/)[ #1558 section ](/bip39-word/section/)[ #1559 security ](/bip39-word/security/)[ #1560 seed ](/bip39-word/seed/)[ #1562 segment ](/bip39-word/segment/)[ #1563 select ](/bip39-word/select/)[ #1564 sell ](/bip39-word/sell/)[ #1565 seminar ](/bip39-word/seminar/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [Bitcoin Private Key Format: WIF, Base58 and Hex Explained](/private-key-btc/)
- [How to Encrypt a Seed Phrase: AES, XOR and Steganography](/seed-phrase-encrypting-with-aes-xor-and-steganography/)
- [Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP): Process and Deployed BIP List](/bitcoin-improvement-proposal/)

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