# What's a Recovery Phrase?

A recovery phrase, also known as ‘seed phrase’, ‘passphrase’, or ‘mnemonic phrase’ is an ordered list of 12 - 24 words which is used as a key to directly recover access to your wallet. It should be stored securely and **you should never share it with anyone, not even us**.

As Revelator Wallet is a self-custody wallet, we do not have any access to your recovery phrase, and as such if you lose access to your wallet and do not have your recovery phrase, we cannot help you regain access to anything that is stored in your wallet, including cryptocurrency funds, NFT collectibles, Royalty Tokens and more.


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