--- title: "BIP39 Word #2040: year — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word" url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/year/" language: "en" updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00" --- Word #2040 11111110111 # year — BIP39 word #2040 "**year**" is word #2040 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [yard](/bip39-word/yard/) and [yellow](/bip39-word/yellow/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `11111110111`, decimal index 2039\. /jɪə/ · _noun:_ a period of twelve months, the time earth takes to circle the sun [Russian](/ru/ "The BIP39 wordlist with Russian translations"): год ## 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/), [winner](/bip39-word/winner/), [worth](/bip39-word/worth/), [youth](/bip39-word/youth/), [zero](/bip39-word/zero/) and [zone](/bip39-word/zone/). One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first): [leave](/bip39-word/leave/)[same](/bip39-word/same/)[ten](/bip39-word/ten/)[upon](/bip39-word/upon/)[want](/bip39-word/want/)[wife](/bip39-word/wife/)[woman](/bip39-word/woman/)[zoo](/bip39-word/zoo/)[wrist](/bip39-word/wrist/)[wrong](/bip39-word/wrong/)[yard](/bip39-word/yard/) Position Hex Index 0x7F7 4-Letter Prefix year ## About "year" in BIP39 - "year" has 4 letters, but the first three, **"yea"**, already identify it, because **"ye"** also begins [yellow](/bip39-word/yellow/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words. - "year" appears in three of the 24 official English [test vectors](https://github.com/trezor/python-mnemonic/blob/master/vectors.json) of BIP39: vectors #2 (word 4 of 12), #6 (words 4 and 12 of 18) and #10 (words 4, 12 and 20 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](/bip39-word/winner/) [thank](/bip39-word/thank/) year [wave](/bip39-word/wave/) [sausage](/bip39-word/sausage/) [worth](/bip39-word/worth/) [useful](/bip39-word/useful/) [legal](/bip39-word/legal/) [winner](/bip39-word/winner/) [thank](/bip39-word/thank/) [yellow](/bip39-word/yellow/) ## Word #2040 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists [Czech](/czech/) zubovina [French](/french/) voyage [Italian](/italian/) zinco [Japanese](/japanese/) わかす [Korean](/korean/) 흔적 [Portuguese](/portuguese/) xerife [Spanish](/spanish/) yogur [Traditional Chinese](/chinese-traditional/) 嘗 [Simplified Chinese](/chinese-simplified/) 尝 ## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery 3 BIP39 words differ from "year" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand: [near](/bip39-word/near/)[pear](/bip39-word/pear/)[wear](/bip39-word/wear/) Read aloud, "year" /jɪə/ is one sound away from these 2 words: [deer /dɪə/](/bip39-word/deer/)[you /juː/](/bip39-word/you/) ## More BIP39 Words Starting with "Y" [ #2039 yard ](/bip39-word/yard/)[ #2041 yellow ](/bip39-word/yellow/)[ #2042 you ](/bip39-word/you/)[ #2043 young ](/bip39-word/young/)[ #2044 youth ](/bip39-word/youth/) [View all words starting with "Y" ](/bip39-words/y/) ## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides - [Can You Guess a Seed Phrase? Probability and Real Risks](/can-you-guess-a-seed-phrase-probability-and-real-risks/) - [Crypto Inheritance: How to Pass On Your Seed Phrase](/crypto-inheritance/) - [Private Key Export: MetaMask, Trust Wallet, Ledger, Electrum](/convert-seed-phrase-to-private-key-guide/) [ Full BIP39 Wordlist ](/)