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title: "BIP39 Word #38: again — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/again/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #38 00000100101 

# again — BIP39 word #38

"**again**" is word #38 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [afraid](/bip39-word/afraid/) and [age](/bip39-word/age/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00000100101`, decimal index 37\. 

/əˈgɛn/  · _adverb:_ one more time, or back to a previous state 

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

## 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):

[lucky](/bip39-word/lucky/)[dwarf](/bip39-word/dwarf/)[caution](/bip39-word/caution/)[believe](/bip39-word/believe/)[arrow](/bip39-word/arrow/)[absent](/bip39-word/absent/)[allow](/bip39-word/allow/)[aisle](/bip39-word/aisle/)[aerobic](/bip39-word/aerobic/)[agent](/bip39-word/agent/)[afraid](/bip39-word/afraid/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x025

4-Letter Prefix

agai

## About "again" in BIP39

- "again" has 5 letters, but the first three, **"aga"**, already identify it, because **"ag"** also begins [age](/bip39-word/age/), [agent](/bip39-word/agent/) and [agree](/bip39-word/agree/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.

## Word #38 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) baletka 

[French](/french/) actuel 

[Italian](/italian/) aggancio 

[Japanese](/japanese/) あやまる 

[Korean](/korean/) 강남 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) acoplar 

[Spanish](/spanish/) aéreo 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

 One BIP39 word differs from "again" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand: 

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "A"

[ #34 aerobic ](/bip39-word/aerobic/)[ #35 affair ](/bip39-word/affair/)[ #36 afford ](/bip39-word/afford/)[ #37 afraid ](/bip39-word/afraid/)[ #39 age ](/bip39-word/age/)[ #40 agent ](/bip39-word/agent/)[ #41 agree ](/bip39-word/agree/)[ #42 ahead ](/bip39-word/ahead/) 

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

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