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title: "BIP39 Word #2001: wheel — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/wheel/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #2001 11111010000 

# wheel — BIP39 word #2001

"**wheel**" is word #2001 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [wheat](/bip39-word/wheat/) and [when](/bip39-word/when/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `11111010000`, decimal index 2000\. 

/wiːl/  · _noun:_ a round object that turns on an axle to help something move 

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

## Binary Representation

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

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

[key](/bip39-word/key/)[ring](/bip39-word/ring/)[sure](/bip39-word/sure/)[tube](/bip39-word/tube/)[velvet](/bip39-word/velvet/)[wrap](/bip39-word/wrap/)[way](/bip39-word/way/)[wild](/bip39-word/wild/)[whisper](/bip39-word/whisper/)[where](/bip39-word/where/)[when](/bip39-word/when/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x7D0

4-Letter Prefix

whee

## About "wheel" in BIP39

- "wheel" has 5 letters, but the first four, **"whee"**, already identify it, because **"whe"** also begins [wheat](/bip39-word/wheat/), [when](/bip39-word/when/) and [where](/bip39-word/where/).

## Word #2001 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) zlato 

[French](/french/) viaduc 

[Italian](/italian/) vigore 

[Japanese](/japanese/) りろん 

[Korean](/korean/) 화분 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) vetorial 

[Spanish](/spanish/) vidrio 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Read aloud, "wheel" /wiːl/ is one sound away from these 7 words: 

[deal /diːl/](/bip39-word/deal/)[feel /fiːl/](/bip39-word/feel/)[wall /wɔːl/](/bip39-word/wall/)[whale /weɪl/](/bip39-word/whale/)[wheat /wiːt/](/bip39-word/wheat/)[will /wɪl/](/bip39-word/will/)[wool /wʊl/](/bip39-word/wool/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "whe":

[wheat](/bip39-word/wheat/)[when](/bip39-word/when/)[where](/bip39-word/where/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "W"

[ #1997 wet ](/bip39-word/wet/)[ #1998 whale ](/bip39-word/whale/)[ #1999 what ](/bip39-word/what/)[ #2000 wheat ](/bip39-word/wheat/)[ #2002 when ](/bip39-word/when/)[ #2003 where ](/bip39-word/where/)[ #2004 whip ](/bip39-word/whip/)[ #2005 whisper ](/bip39-word/whisper/) 

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

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