--- title: "BIP39 Word #2016: winner — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word" url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/winner/" language: "en" updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00" --- Word #2016 11111011111 # winner — BIP39 word #2016 "**winner**" is word #2016 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [wink](/bip39-word/wink/) and [winter](/bip39-word/winter/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `11111011111`, decimal index 2015\. /ˈwɪnə/ · _noun:_ a person or team that wins a competition [Russian](/ru/ "The BIP39 wordlist with Russian translations"): победитель ## 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/), [wave](/bip39-word/wave/), [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): [know](/bip39-word/know/)[room](/bip39-word/room/)[swim](/bip39-word/swim/)[typical](/bip39-word/typical/)[view](/bip39-word/view/)[zoo](/bip39-word/zoo/)[wheat](/bip39-word/wheat/)[wife](/bip39-word/wife/)[window](/bip39-word/window/)[wing](/bip39-word/wing/)[wink](/bip39-word/wink/) Position Hex Index 0x7DF 4-Letter Prefix winn ## About "winner" in BIP39 - "winner" has 6 letters, but the first four, **"winn"**, already identify it, because **"win"** also begins [win](/bip39-word/win/), [window](/bip39-word/window/), [wine](/bip39-word/wine/), [wing](/bip39-word/wing/), [wink](/bip39-word/wink/) and [winter](/bip39-word/winter/). - Its first letters also spell another BIP39 word, [win](/bip39-word/win/). Write "winner" out in full: cut short, it turns into a different valid word. - "winner" appears in three of the 24 official English [test vectors](https://github.com/trezor/python-mnemonic/blob/master/vectors.json) of BIP39: vectors #2 (words 2 and 10 of 12), #6 (words 2 and 10 of 18) and #10 (words 2, 10 and 18 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 [thank](/bip39-word/thank/) [year](/bip39-word/year/) [wave](/bip39-word/wave/) [sausage](/bip39-word/sausage/) [worth](/bip39-word/worth/) [useful](/bip39-word/useful/) [legal](/bip39-word/legal/) winner [thank](/bip39-word/thank/) [yellow](/bip39-word/yellow/) ## Word #2016 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists [Czech](/czech/) znak [French](/french/) visage [Italian](/italian/) vita [Japanese](/japanese/) れきだい [Korean](/korean/) 활동 [Portuguese](/portuguese/) vinheta [Spanish](/spanish/) vista [Traditional Chinese](/chinese-traditional/) 疫 [Simplified Chinese](/chinese-simplified/) 疫 ## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery 3 BIP39 words differ from "winner" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand: [dinner](/bip39-word/dinner/)[inner](/bip39-word/inner/)[winter](/bip39-word/winter/) Read aloud, "winner" /ˈwɪnə/ is one sound away from this word: [win /wɪn/](/bip39-word/win/) Words sharing the first three letters "win": [win](/bip39-word/win/)[window](/bip39-word/window/)[wine](/bip39-word/wine/)[wing](/bip39-word/wing/)[wink](/bip39-word/wink/)[winter](/bip39-word/winter/) ## More BIP39 Words Starting with "W" [ #2012 window ](/bip39-word/window/)[ #2013 wine ](/bip39-word/wine/)[ #2014 wing ](/bip39-word/wing/)[ #2015 wink ](/bip39-word/wink/)[ #2017 winter ](/bip39-word/winter/)[ #2018 wire ](/bip39-word/wire/)[ #2019 wisdom ](/bip39-word/wisdom/)[ #2020 wise ](/bip39-word/wise/) [View all words starting with "W" ](/bip39-words/w/) ## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides - [Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP): Process and Deployed BIP List](/bitcoin-improvement-proposal/) - [TON Seed Phrase: 24-Word Format vs 12-Word BIP39 Phrases](/seed-phrase-format-for-ton-wallets/) - [Recover Lost Bitcoin: Find Wallet Backups and Seed Phrases](/recover-lost-bitcoin-find-wallet-backups/) [ Full BIP39 Wordlist ](/)