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title: "BIP39 Word #18: acquire — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/acquire/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #18 00000010001 

# acquire — BIP39 word #18

"**acquire**" is word #18 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [acoustic](/bip39-word/acoustic/) and [across](/bip39-word/across/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00000010001`, decimal index 17\. 

/əˈkwaɪə/  · _verb:_ to get or gain something for yourself 

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

## Binary Representation

Two 1-bits and nine 0-bits; 55 of the 2048 indexes have exactly two 1-bits.

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

[lion](/bip39-word/lion/)[drama](/bip39-word/drama/)[captain](/bip39-word/captain/)[banana](/bip39-word/banana/)[any](/bip39-word/any/)[alert](/bip39-word/alert/)[ability](/bip39-word/ability/)[add](/bip39-word/add/)[actor](/bip39-word/actor/)[act](/bip39-word/act/)[acoustic](/bip39-word/acoustic/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x011

4-Letter Prefix

acqu

## About "acquire" in BIP39

- "acquire" has 7 letters, but the first three, **"acq"**, already identify it, because **"ac"** also begins 13 other words, among them [access](/bip39-word/access/), [accident](/bip39-word/accident/), [account](/bip39-word/account/) and [accuse](/bip39-word/accuse/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
- **"acqu"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins acquérir in the [French list](/french/) and acqua in the [Italian list](/italian/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #18 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) asfalt 

[French](/french/) abyssal 

[Italian](/italian/) acrobata 

[Japanese](/japanese/) あたためる 

[Korean](/korean/) 가죽 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) acabado 

[Spanish](/spanish/) acento 

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

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "A"

[ #14 accuse ](/bip39-word/accuse/)[ #15 achieve ](/bip39-word/achieve/)[ #16 acid ](/bip39-word/acid/)[ #17 acoustic ](/bip39-word/acoustic/)[ #19 across ](/bip39-word/across/)[ #20 act ](/bip39-word/act/)[ #21 action ](/bip39-word/action/)[ #22 actor ](/bip39-word/actor/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [BIP39 Passphrase: How the 25th Word Creates a Hidden Wallet](/bip39-passphrase/)
- [Is My Seed Phrase Compromised? Signs and What to Do Next](/bip39-seed-phrase-compromise/)
- [BIP 32 Explained: Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets](/bip-32/)

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