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title: "BIP39 Word #2038: wrong — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/wrong/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #2038 11111110101 

# wrong — BIP39 word #2038

"**wrong**" is word #2038 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [write](/bip39-word/write/) and [yard](/bip39-word/yard/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `11111110101`, decimal index 2037\. 

/rɒŋ/  · _adjective:_ not correct or true, or morally bad 

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

## 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):

[leaf](/bip39-word/leaf/)[salt](/bip39-word/salt/)[team](/bip39-word/team/)[upgrade](/bip39-word/upgrade/)[wall](/bip39-word/wall/)[wide](/bip39-word/wide/)[witness](/bip39-word/witness/)[zero](/bip39-word/zero/)[wreck](/bip39-word/wreck/)[year](/bip39-word/year/)[write](/bip39-word/write/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x7F5

4-Letter Prefix

wron

## About "wrong" in BIP39

- "wrong" has 5 letters, but the first three, **"wro"**, already identify it, because **"wr"** also begins [wrap](/bip39-word/wrap/), [wreck](/bip39-word/wreck/), [wrestle](/bip39-word/wrestle/), [wrist](/bip39-word/wrist/) and [write](/bip39-word/write/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
- "wrong" appears in one of the 24 official English [test vectors](https://github.com/trezor/python-mnemonic/blob/master/vectors.json) of BIP39: vector #4 (word 12 of 12). 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. As the last word of vector #4, its final 4 bits, **0101**, are the checksum of the 12-word phrase.

Official test vector #4

[zoo](/bip39-word/zoo/) [zoo](/bip39-word/zoo/) [zoo](/bip39-word/zoo/) [zoo](/bip39-word/zoo/) [zoo](/bip39-word/zoo/) [zoo](/bip39-word/zoo/) [zoo](/bip39-word/zoo/) [zoo](/bip39-word/zoo/) [zoo](/bip39-word/zoo/) [zoo](/bip39-word/zoo/) [zoo](/bip39-word/zoo/) wrong 

## Word #2038 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) zticha 

[French](/french/) voter 

[Italian](/italian/) zerbino 

[Japanese](/japanese/) ろんぶん 

[Korean](/korean/) 흑백 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) xeque 

[Spanish](/spanish/) yodo 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Read aloud, "wrong" /rɒŋ/ is one sound away from these 3 words: 

[long /lɒŋ/](/bip39-word/long/)[ring /rɪŋ/](/bip39-word/ring/)[song /sɒŋ/](/bip39-word/song/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "W"

[ #1970 wage ](/bip39-word/wage/)[ #1971 wagon ](/bip39-word/wagon/)[ #1972 wait ](/bip39-word/wait/)[ #1973 walk ](/bip39-word/walk/)[ #2034 wreck ](/bip39-word/wreck/)[ #2035 wrestle ](/bip39-word/wrestle/)[ #2036 wrist ](/bip39-word/wrist/)[ #2037 write ](/bip39-word/write/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [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/)
- [BIP38 Encrypted Private Keys: 6P Format and How to Decrypt](/bip38/)

[ Full BIP39 Wordlist ](/)