# What's the difference between wallet and account

<mark style="color:orange;">**Seeing that Teleport supports two wallet types, the relationship between a  wallet and account has to be approached on both wallet types (i.e. ID and Normal wallets)**</mark>

## **- ID wallet and Account**

* The relationship between ID wallets and accounts is the same as that of mnemonic words and private keys.&#x20;
* Each ID wallet represents a pair of mnemonic words, while the account represents a private key.
* With the mnemonic words, you can generate as many private keys as you want which can be used to derive addresses on different chains.

**Generally speaking, you can regard the wallet as a package consisting of accounts on different chains with each wallet administering its own accounts.**

## **- Normal wallet and Account**

Since normal wallets are imported by private key and each account represents a private key, you can regard the normal wallet as equal to an account.

**You can not generate a new account under a normal wallet, and can only get accounts on the specific chains you select while importing the normal wallet.**


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