--- title: "BIP39 Word #2008: wife — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word" url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/wife/" language: "en" updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00" --- Word #2008 11111010111 # wife — BIP39 word #2008 "**wife**" is word #2008 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [width](/bip39-word/width/) and [wild](/bip39-word/wild/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `11111010111`, decimal index 2007\. /waɪf/ · _noun:_ the woman that someone is married to [Russian](/ru/ "The BIP39 wordlist with Russian translations"): жена ## Binary Representation Nine 1-bits and two 0-bits; 55 of the 2048 indexes have exactly nine 1-bits. One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first): [kit](/bip39-word/kit/)[road](/bip39-word/road/)[sustain](/bip39-word/sustain/)[turtle](/bip39-word/turtle/)[very](/bip39-word/very/)[year](/bip39-word/year/)[wedding](/bip39-word/wedding/)[winner](/bip39-word/winner/)[whip](/bip39-word/whip/)[wide](/bip39-word/wide/)[width](/bip39-word/width/) Position Hex Index 0x7D7 4-Letter Prefix wife ## About "wife" in BIP39 - "wife" has 4 letters, but the first three, **"wif"**, already identify it, because **"wi"** also begins 16 other words, among them [wide](/bip39-word/wide/), [width](/bip39-word/width/), [wild](/bip39-word/wild/) and [will](/bip39-word/will/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words. ## Word #2008 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists [Czech](/czech/) zmar [French](/french/) vilain [Italian](/italian/) virgola [Japanese](/japanese/) るりがわら [Korean](/korean/) 확장 [Portuguese](/portuguese/) vidraria [Spanish](/spanish/) vino [Traditional Chinese](/chinese-traditional/) 曬 [Simplified Chinese](/chinese-simplified/) 晒 ## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery 5 BIP39 words differ from "wife" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand: [life](/bip39-word/life/)[wide](/bip39-word/wide/)[wine](/bip39-word/wine/)[wire](/bip39-word/wire/)[wise](/bip39-word/wise/) Read aloud, "wife" /waɪf/ is one sound away from this word: [knife /naɪf/](/bip39-word/knife/) ## More BIP39 Words Starting with "W" [ #2004 whip ](/bip39-word/whip/)[ #2005 whisper ](/bip39-word/whisper/)[ #2006 wide ](/bip39-word/wide/)[ #2007 width ](/bip39-word/width/)[ #2009 wild ](/bip39-word/wild/)[ #2010 will ](/bip39-word/will/)[ #2011 win ](/bip39-word/win/)[ #2012 window ](/bip39-word/window/) [View all words starting with "W" ](/bip39-words/w/) ## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides - [Is My Seed Phrase Compromised? Signs and What to Do Next](/bip39-seed-phrase-compromise/) - [BIP 32 Explained: Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets](/bip-32/) - [Can You Guess a Seed Phrase? Probability and Real Risks](/can-you-guess-a-seed-phrase-probability-and-real-risks/) [ Full BIP39 Wordlist ](/)