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title: "BIP39 Word #1704: stay — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/stay/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1704 11010100111 

# stay — BIP39 word #1704

"**stay**" is word #1704 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [state](/bip39-word/state/) and [steak](/bip39-word/steak/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `11010100111`, decimal index 1703\. 

/steɪ/  · _verb:_ to remain in a place or condition 

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

## Binary Representation

Seven 1-bits and four 0-bits; 330 of the 2048 indexes have exactly seven 1-bits.

One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):

[female](/bip39-word/female/)[neutral](/bip39-word/neutral/)[visual](/bip39-word/visual/)[shaft](/bip39-word/shaft/)[table](/bip39-word/table/)[special](/bip39-word/special/)[street](/bip39-word/street/)[sting](/bip39-word/sting/)[stamp](/bip39-word/stamp/)[start](/bip39-word/start/)[state](/bip39-word/state/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x6A7

4-Letter Prefix

stay

## About "stay" in BIP39

- It takes all four letters to identify "stay": **"sta"** also begins 9 other words, among them [stable](/bip39-word/stable/), [stadium](/bip39-word/stadium/), [staff](/bip39-word/staff/) and [stage](/bip39-word/stage/).
- "stay" appears in one of the 24 official English [test vectors](https://github.com/trezor/python-mnemonic/blob/master/vectors.json) of BIP39: vector #14 (word 12 of 18). Every official vector passes the [checksum checker](/bip39-checksum-checker/), and [How BIP39 works](/how-bip39-works/) shows how the entropy turns into such words.

Official test vector #14

[gravity](/bip39-word/gravity/) [machine](/bip39-word/machine/) [north](/bip39-word/north/) [sort](/bip39-word/sort/) [system](/bip39-word/system/) [female](/bip39-word/female/) [filter](/bip39-word/filter/) [attitude](/bip39-word/attitude/) [volume](/bip39-word/volume/) [fold](/bip39-word/fold/) [club](/bip39-word/club/) stay [feature](/bip39-word/feature/) [office](/bip39-word/office/) [ecology](/bip39-word/ecology/) [stable](/bip39-word/stable/) [narrow](/bip39-word/narrow/) [fog](/bip39-word/fog/) 

## Word #1704 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) traktor 

[French](/french/) sagesse 

[Italian](/italian/) solubile 

[Japanese](/japanese/) ふっかつ 

[Korean](/korean/) 체온 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) roteiro 

[Spanish](/spanish/) semana 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

Read aloud, "stay" /steɪ/ is one sound away from these 3 words: 

[stage /steɪʤ/](/bip39-word/stage/)[state /steɪt/](/bip39-word/state/)[steak /steɪk/](/bip39-word/steak/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "sta":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "S"

[ #1700 stamp ](/bip39-word/stamp/)[ #1701 stand ](/bip39-word/stand/)[ #1702 start ](/bip39-word/start/)[ #1703 state ](/bip39-word/state/)[ #1705 steak ](/bip39-word/steak/)[ #1706 steel ](/bip39-word/steel/)[ #1707 stem ](/bip39-word/stem/)[ #1708 step ](/bip39-word/step/) 

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

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