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title: "BIP39 Word #1998: whale — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/whale/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1998 11111001101 

# whale — BIP39 word #1998

"**whale**" is word #1998 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [wet](/bip39-word/wet/) and [what](/bip39-word/what/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `11111001101`, decimal index 1997\. 

/weɪl/  · _noun:_ a very large sea mammal that breathes air through a hole on its head 

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

## 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):

[keen](/bip39-word/keen/)[rifle](/bip39-word/rifle/)[super](/bip39-word/super/)[trust](/bip39-word/trust/)[vast](/bip39-word/vast/)[world](/bip39-word/world/)[wing](/bip39-word/wing/)[weather](/bip39-word/weather/)[weird](/bip39-word/weird/)[wheat](/bip39-word/wheat/)[wet](/bip39-word/wet/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x7CD

4-Letter Prefix

whal

## About "whale" in BIP39

- "whale" has 5 letters, but the first four, **"whal"**, already identify it, because **"wha"** also begins [what](/bip39-word/what/).

## Word #1998 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) zkoumat 

[French](/french/) vétuste 

[Italian](/italian/) vidimare 

[Japanese](/japanese/) りょこう 

[Korean](/korean/) 홍수 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) vertente 

[Spanish](/spanish/) víctima 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Read aloud, "whale" /weɪl/ is one sound away from these 12 words: 

[mail /meɪl/](/bip39-word/mail/)[rail /reɪl/](/bip39-word/rail/)[sail /seɪl/](/bip39-word/sail/)[tail /teɪl/](/bip39-word/tail/)[wage /weɪʤ/](/bip39-word/wage/)[wait /weɪt/](/bip39-word/wait/)[wall /wɔːl/](/bip39-word/wall/)[wave /weɪv/](/bip39-word/wave/)[way /weɪ/](/bip39-word/way/)[wheel /wiːl/](/bip39-word/wheel/)[will /wɪl/](/bip39-word/will/)[wool /wʊl/](/bip39-word/wool/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "wha":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "W"

[ #1994 weird ](/bip39-word/weird/)[ #1995 welcome ](/bip39-word/welcome/)[ #1996 west ](/bip39-word/west/)[ #1997 wet ](/bip39-word/wet/)[ #1999 what ](/bip39-word/what/)[ #2000 wheat ](/bip39-word/wheat/)[ #2001 wheel ](/bip39-word/wheel/)[ #2002 when ](/bip39-word/when/) 

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

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