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title: "BIP39 Word #2041: yellow — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/yellow/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #2041 11111111000 

# yellow — BIP39 word #2041

"**yellow**" is word #2041 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [year](/bip39-word/year/) and [you](/bip39-word/you/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `11111111000`, decimal index 2040\. 

/ˈjɛləʊ/  · _adjective:_ having the color of lemons or ripe bananas 

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

## 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):

[lecture](/bip39-word/lecture/)[sample](/bip39-word/sample/)[tenant](/bip39-word/tenant/)[upper](/bip39-word/upper/)[warfare](/bip39-word/warfare/)[wild](/bip39-word/wild/)[wonder](/bip39-word/wonder/)[wrap](/bip39-word/wrap/)[zebra](/bip39-word/zebra/)[young](/bip39-word/young/)[you](/bip39-word/you/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x7F8

4-Letter Prefix

yell

## About "yellow" in BIP39

- "yellow" has 6 letters, but the first three, **"yel"**, already identify it, because **"ye"** also begins [year](/bip39-word/year/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
- "yellow" appears in one of the 24 official English [test vectors](https://github.com/trezor/python-mnemonic/blob/master/vectors.json) of BIP39: vector #2 (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 #2, its final 4 bits, **1000**, are the checksum of the 12-word phrase.

Official test vector #2

[legal](/bip39-word/legal/) [winner](/bip39-word/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](/bip39-word/winner/) [thank](/bip39-word/thank/) yellow 

## Word #2041 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) zubr 

[French](/french/) voyelle 

[Italian](/italian/) zircone 

[Japanese](/japanese/) わかめ 

[Korean](/korean/) 흔히 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) xingar 

[Spanish](/spanish/) zafiro 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Read aloud, "yellow" /ˈjɛləʊ/ is one sound away from this word: 

[hello /hɛˈləʊ/](/bip39-word/hello/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "Y"

[ #2039 yard ](/bip39-word/yard/)[ #2040 year ](/bip39-word/year/)[ #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

- [How to Create a Seed Phrase: Step-by-Step Guide and Examples](/create-a-seed-phrase/)
- [BIP 44 – Multi-Account Hierarchy for Deterministic Wallets](/bip-44-multi-account-hierarchy-for-deterministic-wallets/)
- [Electrum Seed vs BIP39: Why Other Wallets Reject It](/electrum-seed-vs-bip39/)

[ Full BIP39 Wordlist ](/)