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title: "BIP39 Word #1603: sign — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/sign/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1603 11001000010 

# sign — BIP39 word #1603

"**sign**" is word #1603 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [sight](/bip39-word/sight/) and [silent](/bip39-word/silent/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `11001000010`, decimal index 1602\. 

/saɪn/  · _noun:_ a notice giving information, or something that shows something exists 

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

## 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):

[embark](/bip39-word/embark/)[marriage](/bip39-word/marriage/)[tribe](/bip39-word/tribe/)[success](/bip39-word/success/)[scare](/bip39-word/scare/)[slush](/bip39-word/slush/)[ski](/bip39-word/ski/)[sing](/bip39-word/sing/)[silver](/bip39-word/silver/)[siege](/bip39-word/siege/)[silent](/bip39-word/silent/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x642

4-Letter Prefix

sign

## About "sign" in BIP39

- It takes all four letters to identify "sign": **"sig"** also begins [sight](/bip39-word/sight/).
- **"sign"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins signal in the [French list](/french/), signo in the [Spanish list](/spanish/) and signore in the [Italian list](/italian/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #1603 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) srovnat 

[French](/french/) réanimer 

[Italian](/italian/) seccatura 

[Japanese](/japanese/) はんのう 

[Korean](/korean/) 중학교 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) raio 

[Spanish](/spanish/) resto 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Swap two neighbouring letters and "sign" becomes [sing](/bip39-word/sing/), another valid word that is easy to miss when copying a phrase. 

Read aloud, "sign" /saɪn/ is one sound away from these 9 words: 

[fine /faɪn/](/bip39-word/fine/)[scene /siːn/](/bip39-word/scene/)[shine /ʃaɪn/](/bip39-word/shine/)[side /saɪd/](/bip39-word/side/)[sight /saɪt/](/bip39-word/sight/)[size /saɪz/](/bip39-word/size/)[soon /suːn/](/bip39-word/soon/)[sun /sʌn/](/bip39-word/sun/)[wine /waɪn/](/bip39-word/wine/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "sig":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "S"

[ #1599 sick ](/bip39-word/sick/)[ #1600 side ](/bip39-word/side/)[ #1601 siege ](/bip39-word/siege/)[ #1602 sight ](/bip39-word/sight/)[ #1604 silent ](/bip39-word/silent/)[ #1605 silk ](/bip39-word/silk/)[ #1606 silly ](/bip39-word/silly/)[ #1607 silver ](/bip39-word/silver/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [Electrum Seed vs BIP39: Why Other Wallets Reject It](/electrum-seed-vs-bip39/)
- [Cold Sharding: Splitting a Private Key Into Offline Shamir Shares](/cold-sharding-method-private-key-storage-strategy/)
- [Test Your Wallet Backup: A Self-Audit of Your Seed Phrase](/hack-own-crypto-wallet/)

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