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title: "BIP39 Word #49: alcohol — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/alcohol/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #49 00000110000 

# alcohol — BIP39 word #49

"**alcohol**" is word #49 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [album](/bip39-word/album/) and [alert](/bip39-word/alert/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00000110000`, decimal index 48\. 

/ˈælkəhɒl/  · _noun:_ drinks such as beer and wine that can make people drunk 

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

## 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):

[maid](/bip39-word/maid/)[ecology](/bip39-word/ecology/)[champion](/bip39-word/champion/)[bid](/bip39-word/bid/)[asthma](/bip39-word/asthma/)[acoustic](/bip39-word/acoustic/)[advice](/bip39-word/advice/)[alpha](/bip39-word/alpha/)[alley](/bip39-word/alley/)[alien](/bip39-word/alien/)[alert](/bip39-word/alert/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x030

4-Letter Prefix

alco

## About "alcohol" in BIP39

- "alcohol" has 7 letters, but the first three, **"alc"**, already identify it, because **"al"** also begins 14 other words, among them [alarm](/bip39-word/alarm/), [album](/bip39-word/album/), [alert](/bip39-word/alert/) and [alien](/bip39-word/alien/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
- **"alco"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins alcolico in the [Italian list](/italian/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
- "alcohol" appears in one of the 24 official English [test vectors](https://github.com/trezor/python-mnemonic/blob/master/vectors.json) of BIP39: vector #18 (word 13 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 #18

[panda](/bip39-word/panda/) [eyebrow](/bip39-word/eyebrow/) [bullet](/bip39-word/bullet/) [gorilla](/bip39-word/gorilla/) [call](/bip39-word/call/) [smoke](/bip39-word/smoke/) [muffin](/bip39-word/muffin/) [taste](/bip39-word/taste/) [mesh](/bip39-word/mesh/) [discover](/bip39-word/discover/) [soft](/bip39-word/soft/) [ostrich](/bip39-word/ostrich/) alcohol [speed](/bip39-word/speed/) [nation](/bip39-word/nation/) [flash](/bip39-word/flash/) [devote](/bip39-word/devote/) [level](/bip39-word/level/) [hobby](/bip39-word/hobby/) [quick](/bip39-word/quick/) [inner](/bip39-word/inner/) [drive](/bip39-word/drive/) [ghost](/bip39-word/ghost/) [inside](/bip39-word/inside/) 

## Word #49 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) barva 

[French](/french/) adresse 

[Italian](/italian/) albo 

[Japanese](/japanese/) あんい 

[Korean](/korean/) 강제 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) adeus 

[Spanish](/spanish/) agrio 

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

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "A"

[ #45 airport ](/bip39-word/airport/)[ #46 aisle ](/bip39-word/aisle/)[ #47 alarm ](/bip39-word/alarm/)[ #48 album ](/bip39-word/album/)[ #50 alert ](/bip39-word/alert/)[ #51 alien ](/bip39-word/alien/)[ #52 all ](/bip39-word/all/)[ #53 alley ](/bip39-word/alley/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [BIP38 Encrypted Private Keys: 6P Format and How to Decrypt](/bip38/)
- [BIP39 Passphrase: How the 25th Word Creates a Hidden Wallet](/bip39-passphrase/)
- [Is My Seed Phrase Compromised? Signs and What to Do Next](/bip39-seed-phrase-compromise/)

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