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title: "BIP39 Word #1877: tunnel — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/tunnel/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1877 11101010100 

# tunnel — BIP39 word #1877

"**tunnel**" is word #1877 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [tuna](/bip39-word/tuna/) and [turkey](/bip39-word/turkey/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `11101010100`, decimal index 1876\. 

/ˈtʌnl/  · _noun:_ an underground passage, especially for a road or railway 

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

## 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):

[hedgehog](/bip39-word/hedgehog/)[pride](/bip39-word/pride/)[skin](/bip39-word/skin/)[whisper](/bip39-word/whisper/)[tip](/bip39-word/tip/)[update](/bip39-word/update/)[trigger](/bip39-word/trigger/)[twist](/bip39-word/twist/)[tube](/bip39-word/tube/)[turn](/bip39-word/turn/)[turkey](/bip39-word/turkey/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x754

4-Letter Prefix

tunn

## About "tunnel" in BIP39

- "tunnel" has 6 letters, but the first four, **"tunn"**, already identify it, because **"tun"** also begins [tuna](/bip39-word/tuna/).
- The same spelling is in the [French BIP39 wordlist](/french/), but as word #1934 (index 1933), not #1877\. A wallet set to French reads "tunnel" as **11110001101** instead of **11101010100**, and decodes index 1876 as "thème".

## Word #1877 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) vydat 

[French](/french/) thème 

[Italian](/italian/) tralcio 

[Japanese](/japanese/) むろん 

[Korean](/korean/) 풍습 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) tese 

[Spanish](/spanish/) topar 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Words sharing the first three letters "tun":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "T"

[ #1873 tube ](/bip39-word/tube/)[ #1874 tuition ](/bip39-word/tuition/)[ #1875 tumble ](/bip39-word/tumble/)[ #1876 tuna ](/bip39-word/tuna/)[ #1878 turkey ](/bip39-word/turkey/)[ #1879 turn ](/bip39-word/turn/)[ #1880 turtle ](/bip39-word/turtle/)[ #1881 twelve ](/bip39-word/twelve/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [BIP39 vs BIP32 vs BIP44: How the Seed Standards Fit Together](/crypto-seed-standards-bip39-vs-bip32-vs-bip44/)
- [How to Memorize a Seed Phrase: Color, Story and Palace Methods](/seed-phrase-memory/)
- [What Is a Seed Phrase? How a Recovery Phrase Works](/recovery-seed-phrase-guide/)

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