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title: "BIP39 Word #1697: staff — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/staff/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1697 11010100000 

# staff — BIP39 word #1697

"**staff**" is word #1697 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [stadium](/bip39-word/stadium/) and [stage](/bip39-word/stage/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `11010100000`, decimal index 1696\. 

/stɑːf/  · _noun:_ the people who work for an organization 

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

## 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):

[favorite](/bip39-word/favorite/)[neglect](/bip39-word/neglect/)[village](/bip39-word/village/)[series](/bip39-word/series/)[swing](/bip39-word/swing/)[source](/bip39-word/source/)[stock](/bip39-word/stock/)[steak](/bip39-word/steak/)[stand](/bip39-word/stand/)[stairs](/bip39-word/stairs/)[stage](/bip39-word/stage/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x6A0

4-Letter Prefix

staf

## About "staff" in BIP39

- "staff" has 5 letters, but the first four, **"staf"**, already identify it, because **"sta"** also begins 9 other words, among them [stable](/bip39-word/stable/), [stadium](/bip39-word/stadium/), [stage](/bip39-word/stage/) and [stairs](/bip39-word/stairs/).
- **"staf"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins staffa in the [Italian list](/italian/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #1697 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) toaleta 

[French](/french/) rustique 

[Italian](/italian/) soffitto 

[Japanese](/japanese/) ふせぐ 

[Korean](/korean/) 첫째 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) roleta 

[Spanish](/spanish/) secreto 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

Read aloud, "staff" /stɑːf/ is one sound away from this word: 

[start /stɑːt/](/bip39-word/start/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "sta":

[stable](/bip39-word/stable/)[stadium](/bip39-word/stadium/)[stage](/bip39-word/stage/)[stairs](/bip39-word/stairs/)[stamp](/bip39-word/stamp/)[stand](/bip39-word/stand/)[start](/bip39-word/start/)[state](/bip39-word/state/)[stay](/bip39-word/stay/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "S"

[ #1693 squeeze ](/bip39-word/squeeze/)[ #1694 squirrel ](/bip39-word/squirrel/)[ #1695 stable ](/bip39-word/stable/)[ #1696 stadium ](/bip39-word/stadium/)[ #1698 stage ](/bip39-word/stage/)[ #1699 stairs ](/bip39-word/stairs/)[ #1700 stamp ](/bip39-word/stamp/)[ #1701 stand ](/bip39-word/stand/) 

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

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- [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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