--- title: "BIP39 Word #1984: wave — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word" url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/wave/" language: "en" updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00" --- Word #1984 11110111111 # wave — BIP39 word #1984 "**wave**" is word #1984 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [water](/bip39-word/water/) and [way](/bip39-word/way/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `11110111111`, decimal index 1983\. /weɪv/ · _noun:_ a moving ridge of water on the sea, or a hand gesture [Russian](/ru/ "The BIP39 wordlist with Russian translations"): волна ## Binary Representation A single 0-bit, which only ten other indexes share: [lend](/bip39-word/lend/), [say](/bip39-word/say/), [that](/bip39-word/that/), [useful](/bip39-word/useful/), [winner](/bip39-word/winner/), [worth](/bip39-word/worth/), [year](/bip39-word/year/), [youth](/bip39-word/youth/), [zero](/bip39-word/zero/) and [zone](/bip39-word/zone/). One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first): [jewel](/bip39-word/jewel/)[retire](/bip39-word/retire/)[subject](/bip39-word/subject/)[tree](/bip39-word/tree/)[zoo](/bip39-word/zoo/)[view](/bip39-word/view/)[vote](/bip39-word/vote/)[want](/bip39-word/want/)[wash](/bip39-word/wash/)[waste](/bip39-word/waste/)[water](/bip39-word/water/) Position Hex Index 0x7BF 4-Letter Prefix wave ## About "wave" in BIP39 - "wave" has 4 letters, but the first three, **"wav"**, already identify it, because **"wa"** also begins 15 other words, among them [wage](/bip39-word/wage/), [wagon](/bip39-word/wagon/), [wait](/bip39-word/wait/) and [walk](/bip39-word/walk/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words. - "wave" appears in three of the 24 official English [test vectors](https://github.com/trezor/python-mnemonic/blob/master/vectors.json) of BIP39: vectors #2 (word 5 of 12), #6 (words 5 and 13 of 18) and #10 (words 5, 13 and 21 of 24). 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 #2 [legal](/bip39-word/legal/) [winner](/bip39-word/winner/) [thank](/bip39-word/thank/) [year](/bip39-word/year/) wave [sausage](/bip39-word/sausage/) [worth](/bip39-word/worth/) [useful](/bip39-word/useful/) [legal](/bip39-word/legal/) [winner](/bip39-word/winner/) [thank](/bip39-word/thank/) [yellow](/bip39-word/yellow/) ## Word #1984 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists [Czech](/czech/) zeman [French](/french/) véloce [Italian](/italian/) vero [Japanese](/japanese/) りくつ [Korean](/korean/) 형제 [Portuguese](/portuguese/) veleiro [Spanish](/spanish/) venta [Traditional Chinese](/chinese-traditional/) 倆 [Simplified Chinese](/chinese-simplified/) 俩 ## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery 5 BIP39 words differ from "wave" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand: [cave](/bip39-word/cave/)[have](/bip39-word/have/)[pave](/bip39-word/pave/)[save](/bip39-word/save/)[wage](/bip39-word/wage/) Read aloud, "wave" /weɪv/ is one sound away from these 3 words: [wait /weɪt/](/bip39-word/wait/)[way /weɪ/](/bip39-word/way/)[whale /weɪl/](/bip39-word/whale/) ## More BIP39 Words Starting with "W" [ #1980 wash ](/bip39-word/wash/)[ #1981 wasp ](/bip39-word/wasp/)[ #1982 waste ](/bip39-word/waste/)[ #1983 water ](/bip39-word/water/)[ #1985 way ](/bip39-word/way/)[ #1986 wealth ](/bip39-word/wealth/)[ #1987 weapon ](/bip39-word/weapon/)[ #1988 wear ](/bip39-word/wear/) [View all words starting with "W" ](/bip39-words/w/) ## 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 ](/)