Seed phrase restores wrong wallet

Hi, I had a computer crash and MetaMask extension would not open so I tried to reinstall it using my 12 word seed phrase. I was met with the message “Invalid seed phrase”.
I had spelt the last word wrong. On correcting the spelling I have received a wallet with a different public key which is has nothing in it and no transaction history.
Hopefully someone can help.

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Hi @SteveG if you have a problem with the last word, download this tool:

Download here:

PS: to be sure, use it on a computer without internet.

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Hi, thanks for the reply.
I believe it is the last word as that is what was spelt wrong but I checked the list of words that can be used in the Github and there is no other word even close to it.
I will download the tool then unplug my internet to use it.

Try it :slightly_smiling_face: it will generate all possible combinations in a few minutes.

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So I can try any combo and just enter a ? for the word I want to find. Looks promising.
Thank you very much.

Yeah :smiley: instructions are written on the github page.

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I can’t find how to download the mnemonic-standalone.html.
Is the online version not safe to use?

Download this zip :point_down: and unzip it to your desktop
https://github.com/3rdIteration/mnemonic-recovery/archive/refs/heads/master.zip

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I’ve done that and its opened it up in my browser. Is that right.
Sorry for being a total noo.

Yeah :smiley: mnemonic-standalone.html open in the browser.

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Thank you. I will see how it does.

Good luck :smiley: hopefully it will help.

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Unfortunately it has not been able to find it. I have tried each word aswell.
I have found a video from cryptoo retreiver on toutube, I’ll give that a go.
Thanks for your help.

Hi @SteveG thank you so much for sharing with us.
Just to add to the awesome suggestions provided by @Luigi :100: did you have more than one account in your wallet? if that is your case, you can try the steps in this article :grin:

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