---
title: "BIP39 Word #2022: witness — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/witness/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
---

Word #2022 11111100101 

# witness — BIP39 word #2022

"**witness**" is word #2022 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [wish](/bip39-word/wish/) and [wolf](/bip39-word/wolf/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `11111100101`, decimal index 2021\. 

/ˈwɪtnɪs/  · _noun:_ a person who sees an event happen, or who testifies in court 

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

## 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):

[lake](/bip39-word/lake/)[royal](/bip39-word/royal/)[syrup](/bip39-word/syrup/)[uncover](/bip39-word/uncover/)[visa](/bip39-word/visa/)[weather](/bip39-word/weather/)[wrong](/bip39-word/wrong/)[world](/bip39-word/world/)[wire](/bip39-word/wire/)[woman](/bip39-word/woman/)[wish](/bip39-word/wish/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x7E5

4-Letter Prefix

witn

## About "witness" in BIP39

- "witness" has 7 letters, but the first three, **"wit"**, already identify it, because **"wi"** also begins 16 other words, among them [wide](/bip39-word/wide/), [width](/bip39-word/width/), [wife](/bip39-word/wife/) and [wild](/bip39-word/wild/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.

## Word #2022 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) zoubek 

[French](/french/) vitesse 

[Italian](/italian/) voce 

[Japanese](/japanese/) れんぞく 

[Korean](/korean/) 회복 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) visto 

[Spanish](/spanish/) vivo 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

 One BIP39 word differs from "witness" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand: 

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "W"

[ #2018 wire ](/bip39-word/wire/)[ #2019 wisdom ](/bip39-word/wisdom/)[ #2020 wise ](/bip39-word/wise/)[ #2021 wish ](/bip39-word/wish/)[ #2023 wolf ](/bip39-word/wolf/)[ #2024 woman ](/bip39-word/woman/)[ #2025 wonder ](/bip39-word/wonder/)[ #2026 wood ](/bip39-word/wood/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [12 vs 24 Word Seed Phrase: Which Is More Secure?](/12-vs-24-word-seed-phrase/)
- [BIP 157 Client-Side Block Filtering: Compact Filters Explained](/bip-157-client-side-block-filtering/)
- [Bitcoin Core Seed Phrase: Why There Is None and How to Back Up](/bitcoin-core-seed-phrase-backup-guide/)

[ Full BIP39 Wordlist ](/)