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title: "BIP39 Word #1929: valve — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/valve/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1929 11110001000 

# valve — BIP39 word #1929

"**valve**" is word #1929 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [valley](/bip39-word/valley/) and [van](/bip39-word/van/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `11110001000`, decimal index 1928\. 

/vælv/  · _noun:_ a device that controls the flow of liquid or gas through a pipe 

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

## Binary Representation

Five 1-bits and six 0-bits; 462 of the 2048 indexes have exactly five 1-bits.

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

[illegal](/bip39-word/illegal/)[rain](/bip39-word/rain/)[speed](/bip39-word/speed/)[three](/bip39-word/three/)[weekend](/bip39-word/weekend/)[vital](/bip39-word/vital/)[vessel](/bip39-word/vessel/)[useless](/bip39-word/useless/)[various](/bip39-word/various/)[vanish](/bip39-word/vanish/)[van](/bip39-word/van/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x788

4-Letter Prefix

valv

## About "valve" in BIP39

- "valve" has 5 letters, but the first four, **"valv"**, already identify it, because **"val"** also begins [valid](/bip39-word/valid/) and [valley](/bip39-word/valley/).
- The same spelling is in the [French BIP39 wordlist](/french/), but as word #1971 (index 1970), not #1929\. A wallet set to French reads "valve" as **11110110010** instead of **11110001000**, and decodes index 1928 as "tropical".
- **"valv"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins valvola in the [Italian list](/italian/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
- "valve" appears in one of the 24 official English [test vectors](https://github.com/trezor/python-mnemonic/blob/master/vectors.json) of BIP39: vector #22 (word 11 of 12). 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 #22

[vessel](/bip39-word/vessel/) [ladder](/bip39-word/ladder/) [alter](/bip39-word/alter/) [error](/bip39-word/error/) [federal](/bip39-word/federal/) [sibling](/bip39-word/sibling/) [chat](/bip39-word/chat/) [ability](/bip39-word/ability/) [sun](/bip39-word/sun/) [glass](/bip39-word/glass/) valve [picture](/bip39-word/picture/) 

## Word #1929 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) vzorek 

[French](/french/) tropical 

[Italian](/italian/) unificato 

[Japanese](/japanese/) ゆうびんきょく 

[Korean](/korean/) 한번 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) tridente 

[Spanish](/spanish/) túnel 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Read aloud, "valve" /vælv/ is one sound away from this word: 

[valley /ˈvæli/](/bip39-word/valley/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "val":

[valid](/bip39-word/valid/)[valley](/bip39-word/valley/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "V"

[ #1925 vacuum ](/bip39-word/vacuum/)[ #1926 vague ](/bip39-word/vague/)[ #1927 valid ](/bip39-word/valid/)[ #1928 valley ](/bip39-word/valley/)[ #1930 van ](/bip39-word/van/)[ #1931 vanish ](/bip39-word/vanish/)[ #1932 vapor ](/bip39-word/vapor/)[ #1933 various ](/bip39-word/various/) 

[View all words starting with "V" ](/bip39-words/v/) 

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [BIP38 Encrypted Private Keys: 6P Format and How to Decrypt](/bip38/)
- [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/)

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