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title: "BIP39 Word #1757: swear — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/swear/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1757 11011011100 

# swear — BIP39 word #1757

"**swear**" is word #1757 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [swarm](/bip39-word/swarm/) and [sweet](/bip39-word/sweet/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `11011011100`, decimal index 1756\. 

/sweə/  · _verb:_ to make a serious promise, or to use rude words 

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

## 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):

[fortune](/bip39-word/fortune/)[oppose](/bip39-word/oppose/)[wine](/bip39-word/wine/)[slide](/bip39-word/slide/)[squeeze](/bip39-word/squeeze/)[test](/bip39-word/test/)[sunset](/bip39-word/sunset/)[surround](/bip39-word/surround/)[swallow](/bip39-word/swallow/)[swift](/bip39-word/swift/)[sweet](/bip39-word/sweet/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x6DC

4-Letter Prefix

swea

## About "swear" in BIP39

- "swear" has 5 letters, but the first four, **"swea"**, already identify it, because **"swe"** also begins [sweet](/bip39-word/sweet/).

## Word #1757 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) ulita 

[French](/french/) service 

[Italian](/italian/) stampato 

[Japanese](/japanese/) ほうこく 

[Korean](/korean/) 친척 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) segundo 

[Spanish](/spanish/) sordo 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

Read aloud, "swear" /sweə/ is one sound away from these 5 words: 

[aware /əˈweə/](/bip39-word/aware/)[scare /skeə/](/bip39-word/scare/)[spare /speə/](/bip39-word/spare/)[square /skweə/](/bip39-word/square/)[where /weə/](/bip39-word/where/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "swe":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "S"

[ #1753 swallow ](/bip39-word/swallow/)[ #1754 swamp ](/bip39-word/swamp/)[ #1755 swap ](/bip39-word/swap/)[ #1756 swarm ](/bip39-word/swarm/)[ #1758 sweet ](/bip39-word/sweet/)[ #1759 swift ](/bip39-word/swift/)[ #1760 swim ](/bip39-word/swim/)[ #1761 swing ](/bip39-word/swing/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [BIP39 Passphrase: How the 25th Word Creates a Hidden Wallet](/bip39-passphrase/)
- [Is My Seed Phrase Compromised? Signs and What to Do Next](/bip39-seed-phrase-compromise/)
- [BIP 32 Explained: Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets](/bip-32/)

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