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title: "BIP39 Word #1576: shaft — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/shaft/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1576 11000100111 

# shaft — BIP39 word #1576

"**shaft**" is word #1576 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [shadow](/bip39-word/shadow/) and [shallow](/bip39-word/shallow/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `11000100111`, decimal index 1575\. 

/ʃɑːft/  · _noun:_ a long narrow passage going down, or a long rod or pole 

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

## 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):

[eager](/bip39-word/eager/)[lumber](/bip39-word/lumber/)[top](/bip39-word/top/)[stay](/bip39-word/stay/)[smooth](/bip39-word/smooth/)[science](/bip39-word/science/)[shoulder](/bip39-word/shoulder/)[shine](/bip39-word/shine/)[settle](/bip39-word/settle/)[seven](/bip39-word/seven/)[shadow](/bip39-word/shadow/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x627

4-Letter Prefix

shaf

## About "shaft" in BIP39

- "shaft" has 5 letters, but the first four, **"shaf"**, already identify it, because **"sha"** also begins [shadow](/bip39-word/shadow/), [shallow](/bip39-word/shallow/) and [share](/bip39-word/share/).

## Word #1576 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) souboj 

[French](/french/) purifier 

[Italian](/italian/) scheda 

[Japanese](/japanese/) はっぽう 

[Korean](/korean/) 주문 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) pular 

[Spanish](/spanish/) regalo 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

Words sharing the first three letters "sha":

[shadow](/bip39-word/shadow/)[shallow](/bip39-word/shallow/)[share](/bip39-word/share/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "S"

[ #1572 settle ](/bip39-word/settle/)[ #1573 setup ](/bip39-word/setup/)[ #1574 seven ](/bip39-word/seven/)[ #1575 shadow ](/bip39-word/shadow/)[ #1577 shallow ](/bip39-word/shallow/)[ #1578 share ](/bip39-word/share/)[ #1579 shed ](/bip39-word/shed/)[ #1580 shell ](/bip39-word/shell/) 

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

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