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title: "BIP39 Word #32: advance — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/advance/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #32 00000011111 

# advance — BIP39 word #32

"**advance**" is word #32 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [adult](/bip39-word/adult/) and [advice](/bip39-word/advice/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00000011111`, decimal index 31\. 

/ədˈvɑːns/  · _verb:_ to move forward or make progress 

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

## Binary Representation

Five 1-bits and six 0-bits; 462 of the 2048 indexes have exactly five 1-bits.

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

[loop](/bip39-word/loop/)[dumb](/bip39-word/dumb/)[catalog](/bip39-word/catalog/)[become](/bip39-word/become/)[armor](/bip39-word/armor/)[among](/bip39-word/among/)[acid](/bip39-word/acid/)[actual](/bip39-word/actual/)[address](/bip39-word/address/)[admit](/bip39-word/admit/)[adult](/bip39-word/adult/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x01F

4-Letter Prefix

adva

## About "advance" in BIP39

- "advance" has 7 letters, but the first four, **"adva"**, already identify it, because **"adv"** also begins [advice](/bip39-word/advice/).
- "advance" appears in one of the 24 official English [test vectors](https://github.com/trezor/python-mnemonic/blob/master/vectors.json) of BIP39: vector #21 (word 22 of 24). 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.

Official test vector #21

[all](/bip39-word/all/) [hour](/bip39-word/hour/) [make](/bip39-word/make/) [first](/bip39-word/first/) [leader](/bip39-word/leader/) [extend](/bip39-word/extend/) [hole](/bip39-word/hole/) [alien](/bip39-word/alien/) [behind](/bip39-word/behind/) [guard](/bip39-word/guard/) [gospel](/bip39-word/gospel/) [lava](/bip39-word/lava/) [path](/bip39-word/path/) [output](/bip39-word/output/) [census](/bip39-word/census/) [museum](/bip39-word/museum/) [junior](/bip39-word/junior/) [mass](/bip39-word/mass/) [reopen](/bip39-word/reopen/) [famous](/bip39-word/famous/) [sing](/bip39-word/sing/) advance [salt](/bip39-word/salt/) [reform](/bip39-word/reform/) 

## Word #32 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) badatel 

[French](/french/) acier 

[Italian](/italian/) aforisma 

[Japanese](/japanese/) あまい 

[Korean](/korean/) 감기 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) acionado 

[Spanish](/spanish/) adicto 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Words sharing the first three letters "adv":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "A"

[ #28 address ](/bip39-word/address/)[ #29 adjust ](/bip39-word/adjust/)[ #30 admit ](/bip39-word/admit/)[ #31 adult ](/bip39-word/adult/)[ #33 advice ](/bip39-word/advice/)[ #34 aerobic ](/bip39-word/aerobic/)[ #35 affair ](/bip39-word/affair/)[ #36 afford ](/bip39-word/afford/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [Why You Should Never Create Your Own Seed Phrase](/why-you-should-never-create-your-own-seed-phrase/)
- [12 vs 24 Word Seed Phrase: Which Is More Secure?](/12-vs-24-word-seed-phrase/)
- [BIP 157 Client-Side Block Filtering: Compact Filters Explained](/bip-157-client-side-block-filtering/)

[ Full BIP39 Wordlist ](/)