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title: "BIP39 Word #1577: shallow — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/shallow/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1577 11000101000 

# shallow — BIP39 word #1577

"**shallow**" is word #1577 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [shaft](/bip39-word/shaft/) and [share](/bip39-word/share/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `11000101000`, decimal index 1576\. 

/ˈʃæləʊ/  · _adjective:_ not deep, or not showing serious thought 

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

## 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):

[eagle](/bip39-word/eagle/)[lunar](/bip39-word/lunar/)[topic](/bip39-word/topic/)[steak](/bip39-word/steak/)[snack](/bip39-word/snack/)[scissors](/bip39-word/scissors/)[shove](/bip39-word/shove/)[series](/bip39-word/series/)[sheriff](/bip39-word/sheriff/)[shed](/bip39-word/shed/)[share](/bip39-word/share/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x628

4-Letter Prefix

shal

## About "shallow" in BIP39

- "shallow" has 7 letters, but the first four, **"shal"**, already identify it, because **"sha"** also begins [shadow](/bip39-word/shadow/), [shaft](/bip39-word/shaft/) and [share](/bip39-word/share/).

## Word #1577 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) soucit 

[French](/french/) puzzle 

[Italian](/italian/) schiena 

[Japanese](/japanese/) はなす 

[Korean](/korean/) 주민 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) pulmonar 

[Spanish](/spanish/) regir 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

Read aloud, "shallow" /ˈʃæləʊ/ is one sound away from this word: 

[shadow /ˈʃædəʊ/](/bip39-word/shadow/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "sha":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "S"

[ #1573 setup ](/bip39-word/setup/)[ #1574 seven ](/bip39-word/seven/)[ #1575 shadow ](/bip39-word/shadow/)[ #1576 shaft ](/bip39-word/shaft/)[ #1578 share ](/bip39-word/share/)[ #1579 shed ](/bip39-word/shed/)[ #1580 shell ](/bip39-word/shell/)[ #1581 sheriff ](/bip39-word/sheriff/) 

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

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