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title: "BIP39 Word #1970: wage — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/wage/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1970 11110110001 

# wage — BIP39 word #1970

"**wage**" is word #1970 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [voyage](/bip39-word/voyage/) and [wagon](/bip39-word/wagon/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `11110110001`, decimal index 1969\. 

/weɪʤ/  · _noun:_ a fixed regular payment for work, often paid weekly 

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

## 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):

[involve](/bip39-word/involve/)[renew](/bip39-word/renew/)[stomach](/bip39-word/stomach/)[tower](/bip39-word/tower/)[wreck](/bip39-word/wreck/)[vendor](/bip39-word/vendor/)[vintage](/bip39-word/vintage/)[warm](/bip39-word/warm/)[wall](/bip39-word/wall/)[wait](/bip39-word/wait/)[voyage](/bip39-word/voyage/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x7B1

4-Letter Prefix

wage

## About "wage" in BIP39

- It takes all four letters to identify "wage": **"wag"** also begins [wagon](/bip39-word/wagon/).

## Word #1970 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) zazvonit 

[French](/french/) vallon 

[Italian](/italian/) veduto 

[Japanese](/japanese/) らくご 

[Korean](/korean/) 현관 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) vantagem 

[Spanish](/spanish/) vecino 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

 4 BIP39 words differ from "wage" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand: 

[age](/bip39-word/age/)[cage](/bip39-word/cage/)[page](/bip39-word/page/)[wave](/bip39-word/wave/) 

Read aloud, "wage" /weɪʤ/ is one sound away from these 4 words: 

[gauge /ɡeɪʤ/](/bip39-word/gauge/)[wait /weɪt/](/bip39-word/wait/)[way /weɪ/](/bip39-word/way/)[whale /weɪl/](/bip39-word/whale/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "wag":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "W"

[ #1971 wagon ](/bip39-word/wagon/)[ #1972 wait ](/bip39-word/wait/)[ #1973 walk ](/bip39-word/walk/)[ #1974 wall ](/bip39-word/wall/)[ #2035 wrestle ](/bip39-word/wrestle/)[ #2036 wrist ](/bip39-word/wrist/)[ #2037 write ](/bip39-word/write/)[ #2038 wrong ](/bip39-word/wrong/) 

[View all words starting with "W" ](/bip39-words/w/) 

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [Seed Phrase vs Private Key: What's the Difference?](/seed-phrase-vs-private-key/)
- [Private Key QR Code Risks: Why Online Generators Are Unsafe](/qr-code-private-key-security-risks/)
- [Seed Phrase Formats by Network: BIP39 and the Exceptions](/seed-phrase-formats-by-network/)

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