--- title: "BIP39 Word #1564: sell — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word" url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/sell/" language: "en" updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00" --- Word #1564 11000011011 # sell — BIP39 word #1564 "**sell**" is word #1564 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [select](/bip39-word/select/) and [seminar](/bip39-word/seminar/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `11000011011`, decimal index 1563\. /sɛl/ · _verb:_ to give something to someone in exchange for money [Russian](/ru/ "The BIP39 wordlist with Russian translations"): продавать ## 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): [drop](/bip39-word/drop/)[lock](/bip39-word/lock/)[toddler](/bip39-word/toddler/)[square](/bip39-word/square/)[slice](/bip39-word/slice/)[shuffle](/bip39-word/shuffle/)[scrap](/bip39-word/scrap/)[second](/bip39-word/second/)[sentence](/bip39-word/sentence/)[segment](/bip39-word/segment/)[select](/bip39-word/select/) Position Hex Index 0x61B 4-Letter Prefix sell ## About "sell" in BIP39 - It takes all four letters to identify "sell": **"sel"** also begins [select](/bip39-word/select/). - **"sell"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins sello in the [Spanish list](/spanish/) and sella in the [Italian list](/italian/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses. ## Word #1564 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists [Czech](/czech/) smrtka [French](/french/) proverbe [Italian](/italian/) scabroso [Japanese](/japanese/) はっかく [Korean](/korean/) 종류 [Portuguese](/portuguese/) processo [Spanish](/spanish/) rechazo [Traditional Chinese](/chinese-traditional/) 仁 [Simplified Chinese](/chinese-simplified/) 仁 ## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery 3 BIP39 words differ from "sell" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand: [shell](/bip39-word/shell/)[spell](/bip39-word/spell/)[tell](/bip39-word/tell/) Read aloud, "sell" /sɛl/ is one sound away from these 3 words: [sail /seɪl/](/bip39-word/sail/)[settle /ˈsɛtl/](/bip39-word/settle/)[soul /səʊl/](/bip39-word/soul/) Words sharing the first three letters "sel": [select](/bip39-word/select/) ## More BIP39 Words Starting with "S" [ #1560 seed ](/bip39-word/seed/)[ #1561 seek ](/bip39-word/seek/)[ #1562 segment ](/bip39-word/segment/)[ #1563 select ](/bip39-word/select/)[ #1565 seminar ](/bip39-word/seminar/)[ #1566 senior ](/bip39-word/senior/)[ #1567 sense ](/bip39-word/sense/)[ #1568 sentence ](/bip39-word/sentence/) [View all words starting with "S" ](/bip39-words/s/) ## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides - [How to Memorize a Seed Phrase: Color, Story and Palace Methods](/seed-phrase-memory/) - [What Is a Seed Phrase? How a Recovery Phrase Works](/recovery-seed-phrase-guide/) - [What Is a Bitcoin Address and How Does It Work?](/what-is-a-bitcoin-address/) [ Full BIP39 Wordlist ](/)