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title: "BIP39 Word #5: above — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/above/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #5 00000000100 

# above — BIP39 word #5

"**above**" is word #5 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [about](/bip39-word/about/) and [absent](/bip39-word/absent/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00000000100`, decimal index 4\. 

/əˈbʌv/  · _preposition:_ at a higher place or level than something 

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

## Binary Representation

A single 1-bit: 4 is a power of two, like the indexes of [ability](/bip39-word/ability/), [able](/bip39-word/able/), [absurd](/bip39-word/absurd/), [acoustic](/bip39-word/acoustic/), [advice](/bip39-word/advice/), [amount](/bip39-word/amount/), [avoid](/bip39-word/avoid/), [cactus](/bip39-word/cactus/), [divorce](/bip39-word/divorce/) and [length](/bip39-word/length/).

One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):

[letter](/bip39-word/letter/)[dog](/bip39-word/dog/)[calm](/bip39-word/calm/)[awesome](/bip39-word/awesome/)[ancient](/bip39-word/ancient/)[afraid](/bip39-word/afraid/)[action](/bip39-word/action/)[account](/bip39-word/account/)[abandon](/bip39-word/abandon/)[absorb](/bip39-word/absorb/)[absent](/bip39-word/absent/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x004

4-Letter Prefix

abov

## About "above" in BIP39

- "above" has 5 letters, but the first four, **"abov"**, already identify it, because **"abo"** also begins [about](/bip39-word/about/).
- "above" appears in one of the 24 official English [test vectors](https://github.com/trezor/python-mnemonic/blob/master/vectors.json) of BIP39: vector #3 (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 #3, its final 4 bits, **0100**, are the checksum of the 12-word phrase.

Official test vector #3

[letter](/bip39-word/letter/) [advice](/bip39-word/advice/) [cage](/bip39-word/cage/) [absurd](/bip39-word/absurd/) [amount](/bip39-word/amount/) [doctor](/bip39-word/doctor/) [acoustic](/bip39-word/acoustic/) [avoid](/bip39-word/avoid/) [letter](/bip39-word/letter/) [advice](/bip39-word/advice/) [cage](/bip39-word/cage/) above 

## Word #5 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) akce 

[French](/french/) abolir 

[Italian](/italian/) abisso 

[Japanese](/japanese/) あかちゃん 

[Korean](/korean/) 가득 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) abduzir 

[Spanish](/spanish/) abogado 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Words sharing the first three letters "abo":

[about](/bip39-word/about/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "A"

[ #1 abandon ](/bip39-word/abandon/)[ #2 ability ](/bip39-word/ability/)[ #3 able ](/bip39-word/able/)[ #4 about ](/bip39-word/about/)[ #6 absent ](/bip39-word/absent/)[ #7 absorb ](/bip39-word/absorb/)[ #8 abstract ](/bip39-word/abstract/)[ #9 absurd ](/bip39-word/absurd/) 

[View all words starting with "A" ](/bip39-words/a/) 

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [Electrum Seed vs BIP39: Why Other Wallets Reject It](/electrum-seed-vs-bip39/)
- [Cold Sharding: Splitting a Private Key Into Offline Shamir Shares](/cold-sharding-method-private-key-storage-strategy/)
- [Test Your Wallet Backup: A Self-Audit of Your Seed Phrase](/hack-own-crypto-wallet/)

[ Full BIP39 Wordlist ](/)