--- title: "BIP39 Word #1843: town — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word" url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/town/" language: "en" updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00" --- Word #1843 11100110010 # town — BIP39 word #1843 "**town**" is word #1843 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [tower](/bip39-word/tower/) and [toy](/bip39-word/toy/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `11100110010`, decimal index 1842\. /taʊn/ · _noun:_ a place with many houses and shops, smaller than a city [Russian](/ru/ "The BIP39 wordlist with Russian translations"): городок ## Binary Representation Six 1-bits and five 0-bits; 462 of the 2048 indexes have exactly six 1-bits. One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first): [green](/bip39-word/green/)[play](/bip39-word/play/)[shock](/bip39-word/shock/)[wagon](/bip39-word/wagon/)[unusual](/bip39-word/unusual/)[time](/bip39-word/time/)[tone](/bip39-word/tone/)[trap](/bip39-word/trap/)[traffic](/bip39-word/traffic/)[toward](/bip39-word/toward/)[toy](/bip39-word/toy/) Position Hex Index 0x732 4-Letter Prefix town ## About "town" in BIP39 - It takes all four letters to identify "town": **"tow"** also begins [toward](/bip39-word/toward/) and [tower](/bip39-word/tower/). ## Word #1843 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists [Czech](/czech/) vloupat [French](/french/) système [Italian](/italian/) tigella [Japanese](/japanese/) みやげ [Korean](/korean/) 판매 [Portuguese](/portuguese/) talher [Spanish](/spanish/) texto [Traditional Chinese](/chinese-traditional/) 冊 [Simplified Chinese](/chinese-simplified/) 册 ## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery 2 BIP39 words differ from "town" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand: [gown](/bip39-word/gown/)[own](/bip39-word/own/) Read aloud, "town" /taʊn/ is one sound away from these 4 words: [ten /tɛn/](/bip39-word/ten/)[tone /təʊn/](/bip39-word/tone/)[tower /ˈtaʊə/](/bip39-word/tower/)[turn /tɜːn/](/bip39-word/turn/) Words sharing the first three letters "tow": [toward](/bip39-word/toward/)[tower](/bip39-word/tower/) ## More BIP39 Words Starting with "T" [ #1839 total ](/bip39-word/total/)[ #1840 tourist ](/bip39-word/tourist/)[ #1841 toward ](/bip39-word/toward/)[ #1842 tower ](/bip39-word/tower/)[ #1844 toy ](/bip39-word/toy/)[ #1845 track ](/bip39-word/track/)[ #1846 trade ](/bip39-word/trade/)[ #1847 traffic ](/bip39-word/traffic/) [View all words starting with "T" ](/bip39-words/t/) ## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides - [Bitcoin Private Key Format: WIF, Base58 and Hex Explained](/private-key-btc/) - [How to Encrypt a Seed Phrase: AES, XOR and Steganography](/seed-phrase-encrypting-with-aes-xor-and-steganography/) - [Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP): Process and Deployed BIP List](/bitcoin-improvement-proposal/) [ Full BIP39 Wordlist ](/)