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title: "BIP39 Word #37: afraid — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/afraid/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #37 00000100100 

# afraid — BIP39 word #37

"**afraid**" is word #37 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [afford](/bip39-word/afford/) and [again](/bip39-word/again/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00000100100`, decimal index 36\. 

/əˈfreɪd/  · _adjective:_ feeling fear or worry about something 

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

## 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):

[loyal](/bip39-word/loyal/)[duty](/bip39-word/duty/)[cause](/bip39-word/cause/)[behind](/bip39-word/behind/)[arrive](/bip39-word/arrive/)[above](/bip39-word/above/)[alley](/bip39-word/alley/)[airport](/bip39-word/airport/)[advice](/bip39-word/advice/)[age](/bip39-word/age/)[again](/bip39-word/again/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x024

4-Letter Prefix

afra

## About "afraid" in BIP39

- "afraid" has 6 letters, but the first three, **"afr"**, already identify it, because **"af"** also begins [affair](/bip39-word/affair/) and [afford](/bip39-word/afford/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.

## Word #37 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) balada 

[French](/french/) actif 

[Italian](/italian/) agevole 

[Japanese](/japanese/) あめりか 

[Korean](/korean/) 갑자기 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) acomodar 

[Spanish](/spanish/) adulto 

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

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "A"

[ #33 advice ](/bip39-word/advice/)[ #34 aerobic ](/bip39-word/aerobic/)[ #35 affair ](/bip39-word/affair/)[ #36 afford ](/bip39-word/afford/)[ #38 again ](/bip39-word/again/)[ #39 age ](/bip39-word/age/)[ #40 agent ](/bip39-word/agent/)[ #41 agree ](/bip39-word/agree/) 

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

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