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title: "BIP39 Word #1972: wait — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/wait/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1972 11110110011 

# wait — BIP39 word #1972

"**wait**" is word #1972 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [wagon](/bip39-word/wagon/) and [walk](/bip39-word/walk/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `11110110011`, decimal index 1971\. 

/weɪt/  · _verb:_ to stay where you are or delay acting until something happens 

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

## Binary Representation

Eight 1-bits and three 0-bits; 165 of the 2048 indexes have exactly eight 1-bits.

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

[island](/bip39-word/island/)[reopen](/bip39-word/reopen/)[stool](/bip39-word/stool/)[toy](/bip39-word/toy/)[wrist](/bip39-word/wrist/)[venue](/bip39-word/venue/)[virtual](/bip39-word/virtual/)[wash](/bip39-word/wash/)[want](/bip39-word/want/)[wage](/bip39-word/wage/)[wagon](/bip39-word/wagon/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x7B3

4-Letter Prefix

wait

## About "wait" in BIP39

- "wait" has 4 letters, but the first three, **"wai"**, already identify it, because **"wa"** also begins 15 other words, among them [wage](/bip39-word/wage/), [wagon](/bip39-word/wagon/), [walk](/bip39-word/walk/) and [wall](/bip39-word/wall/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.

## Word #1972 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) zbrusu 

[French](/french/) vampire 

[Italian](/italian/) veicolo 

[Japanese](/japanese/) らくだ 

[Korean](/korean/) 현대 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) varanda 

[Spanish](/spanish/) vehículo 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

Read aloud, "wait" /weɪt/ is one sound away from these 11 words: 

[eight /eɪt/](/bip39-word/eight/)[gate /geɪt/](/bip39-word/gate/)[rate /reɪt/](/bip39-word/rate/)[wage /weɪʤ/](/bip39-word/wage/)[waste /weɪst/](/bip39-word/waste/)[wave /weɪv/](/bip39-word/wave/)[way /weɪ/](/bip39-word/way/)[wet /wɛt/](/bip39-word/wet/)[whale /weɪl/](/bip39-word/whale/)[what /wɒt/](/bip39-word/what/)[wheat /wiːt/](/bip39-word/wheat/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "W"

[ #1970 wage ](/bip39-word/wage/)[ #1971 wagon ](/bip39-word/wagon/)[ #1973 walk ](/bip39-word/walk/)[ #1974 wall ](/bip39-word/wall/)[ #1975 walnut ](/bip39-word/walnut/)[ #1976 want ](/bip39-word/want/)[ #2037 write ](/bip39-word/write/)[ #2038 wrong ](/bip39-word/wrong/) 

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

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