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title: "BIP39 Word #24: actual — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/actual/"
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updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #24 00000010111 

# actual — BIP39 word #24

"**actual**" is word #24 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [actress](/bip39-word/actress/) and [adapt](/bip39-word/adapt/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00000010111`, decimal index 23\. 

/ˈækʧʊəl/  · _adjective:_ existing in fact rather than being imagined or estimated 

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

## Binary Representation

Four 1-bits and seven 0-bits; 330 of the 2048 indexes have exactly four 1-bits.

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

[load](/bip39-word/load/)[drill](/bip39-word/drill/)[carry](/bip39-word/carry/)[base](/bip39-word/base/)[april](/bip39-word/april/)[alone](/bip39-word/alone/)[abstract](/bip39-word/abstract/)[advance](/bip39-word/advance/)[act](/bip39-word/act/)[actor](/bip39-word/actor/)[actress](/bip39-word/actress/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x017

4-Letter Prefix

actu

## About "actual" in BIP39

- "actual" has 6 letters, but the first four, **"actu"**, already identify it, because **"act"** also begins [act](/bip39-word/act/), [action](/bip39-word/action/), [actor](/bip39-word/actor/) and [actress](/bip39-word/actress/).
- Its first letters also spell another BIP39 word, [act](/bip39-word/act/). Write "actual" out in full: cut short, it turns into a different valid word.
- **"actu"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins actuel in the [French list](/french/) and actuar in the [Spanish list](/spanish/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #24 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) atletika 

[French](/french/) acclamer 

[Italian](/italian/) aderire 

[Japanese](/japanese/) あつまり 

[Korean](/korean/) 간장 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) acelerar 

[Spanish](/spanish/) acoso 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Words sharing the first three letters "act":

[act](/bip39-word/act/)[action](/bip39-word/action/)[actor](/bip39-word/actor/)[actress](/bip39-word/actress/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "A"

[ #20 act ](/bip39-word/act/)[ #21 action ](/bip39-word/action/)[ #22 actor ](/bip39-word/actor/)[ #23 actress ](/bip39-word/actress/)[ #25 adapt ](/bip39-word/adapt/)[ #26 add ](/bip39-word/add/)[ #27 addict ](/bip39-word/addict/)[ #28 address ](/bip39-word/address/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [Seed Phrase Examples: 12, 18 and 24 BIP39 Mnemonic Phrases](/mnemonic-words-examples-for-crypto-security-bip39/)
- [How to Protect Your Crypto Wallet from Phishing](/protect-crypto-wallet-from-phishing/)
- [Monero Seed Phrase: 25 Words, Polyseed and Private Keys](/seed-phrase-and-private-key-format-of-monero-guide/)

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