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title: "BIP39 Word #36: afford — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/afford/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #36 00000100011 

# afford — BIP39 word #36

"**afford**" is word #36 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [affair](/bip39-word/affair/) and [afraid](/bip39-word/afraid/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00000100011`, decimal index 35\. 

/əˈfɔːd/  · _verb:_ to have enough money or time to pay for something 

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

## Binary Representation

Three 1-bits and eight 0-bits; 165 of the 2048 indexes have exactly three 1-bits.

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

[love](/bip39-word/love/)[dutch](/bip39-word/dutch/)[caught](/bip39-word/caught/)[behave](/bip39-word/behave/)[arrest](/bip39-word/arrest/)[about](/bip39-word/about/)[all](/bip39-word/all/)[air](/bip39-word/air/)[agent](/bip39-word/agent/)[aerobic](/bip39-word/aerobic/)[affair](/bip39-word/affair/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x023

4-Letter Prefix

affo

## About "afford" in BIP39

- "afford" has 6 letters, but the first four, **"affo"**, already identify it, because **"aff"** also begins [affair](/bip39-word/affair/).

## Word #36 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) bakterie 

[French](/french/) acteur 

[Italian](/italian/) agente 

[Japanese](/japanese/) あみもの 

[Korean](/korean/) 감정 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) acolhida 

[Spanish](/spanish/) aduana 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Words sharing the first three letters "aff":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "A"

[ #32 advance ](/bip39-word/advance/)[ #33 advice ](/bip39-word/advice/)[ #34 aerobic ](/bip39-word/aerobic/)[ #35 affair ](/bip39-word/affair/)[ #37 afraid ](/bip39-word/afraid/)[ #38 again ](/bip39-word/again/)[ #39 age ](/bip39-word/age/)[ #40 agent ](/bip39-word/agent/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [BIP 44 – Multi-Account Hierarchy for Deterministic Wallets](/bip-44-multi-account-hierarchy-for-deterministic-wallets/)
- [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/)

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