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title: "BIP39 Word #1797: they — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/they/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1797 11100000100 

# they — BIP39 word #1797

"**they**" is word #1797 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [there](/bip39-word/there/) and [thing](/bip39-word/thing/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `11100000100`, decimal index 1796\. 

/ðeɪ/  · _pronoun:_ the people or things already mentioned, or people in general 

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

## 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):

[gauge](/bip39-word/gauge/)[party](/bip39-word/party/)[scene](/bip39-word/scene/)[vacuum](/bip39-word/vacuum/)[trigger](/bip39-word/trigger/)[tonight](/bip39-word/tonight/)[tip](/bip39-word/tip/)[thunder](/bip39-word/thunder/)[theme](/bip39-word/theme/)[this](/bip39-word/this/)[thing](/bip39-word/thing/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x704

4-Letter Prefix

they

## About "they" in BIP39

- It takes all four letters to identify "they": **"the"** also begins [theme](/bip39-word/theme/), [then](/bip39-word/then/), [theory](/bip39-word/theory/) and [there](/bip39-word/there/).

## Word #1797 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) vanilka 

[French](/french/) soucieux 

[Italian](/italian/) svenuto 

[Japanese](/japanese/) まこと 

[Korean](/korean/) 탁구 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) sonata 

[Spanish](/spanish/) tambor 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

Read aloud, "they" /ðeɪ/ is one sound away from these 4 words: 

[day /deɪ/](/bip39-word/day/)[say /seɪ/](/bip39-word/say/)[there /ðeə/](/bip39-word/there/)[way /weɪ/](/bip39-word/way/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "the":

[theme](/bip39-word/theme/)[then](/bip39-word/then/)[theory](/bip39-word/theory/)[there](/bip39-word/there/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "T"

[ #1793 theme ](/bip39-word/theme/)[ #1794 then ](/bip39-word/then/)[ #1795 theory ](/bip39-word/theory/)[ #1796 there ](/bip39-word/there/)[ #1798 thing ](/bip39-word/thing/)[ #1799 this ](/bip39-word/this/)[ #1800 thought ](/bip39-word/thought/)[ #1801 three ](/bip39-word/three/) 

[View all words starting with "T" ](/bip39-words/t/) 

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