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title: "BIP39 Word #61: always — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/always/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #61 00000111100 

# always — BIP39 word #61

"**always**" is word #61 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [alter](/bip39-word/alter/) and [amateur](/bip39-word/amateur/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00000111100`, decimal index 60\. 

/ˈɔːlweɪz/  · _adverb:_ at all times or on every occasion 

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

## Binary Representation

Four 1-bits and seven 0-bits; 330 of the 2048 indexes have exactly four 1-bits.

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

[maple](/bip39-word/maple/)[elegant](/bip39-word/elegant/)[chest](/bip39-word/chest/)[bleak](/bip39-word/bleak/)[auto](/bip39-word/auto/)[adjust](/bip39-word/adjust/)[airport](/bip39-word/airport/)[alley](/bip39-word/alley/)[alpha](/bip39-word/alpha/)[amazing](/bip39-word/amazing/)[amateur](/bip39-word/amateur/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x03C

4-Letter Prefix

alwa

## About "always" in BIP39

- "always" has 6 letters, but the first three, **"alw"**, already identify it, because **"al"** also begins 14 other words, among them [alarm](/bip39-word/alarm/), [album](/bip39-word/album/), [alcohol](/bip39-word/alcohol/) and [alert](/bip39-word/alert/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
- "always" appears in one of the 24 official English [test vectors](https://github.com/trezor/python-mnemonic/blob/master/vectors.json) of BIP39: vector #7 (word 18 of 18). 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. As the last word of vector #7, its final 6 bits, **111100**, are the checksum of the 18-word phrase.

Official test vector #7

[letter](/bip39-word/letter/) [advice](/bip39-word/advice/) [cage](/bip39-word/cage/) [absurd](/bip39-word/absurd/) [amount](/bip39-word/amount/) [doctor](/bip39-word/doctor/) [acoustic](/bip39-word/acoustic/) [avoid](/bip39-word/avoid/) [letter](/bip39-word/letter/) [advice](/bip39-word/advice/) [cage](/bip39-word/cage/) [absurd](/bip39-word/absurd/) [amount](/bip39-word/amount/) [doctor](/bip39-word/doctor/) [acoustic](/bip39-word/acoustic/) [avoid](/bip39-word/avoid/) [letter](/bip39-word/letter/) always 

## Word #61 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) bezinka 

[French](/french/) agencer 

[Italian](/italian/) allievo 

[Japanese](/japanese/) いきなり 

[Korean](/korean/) 거액 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) afastar 

[Spanish](/spanish/) alacrán 

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

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "A"

[ #57 alpha ](/bip39-word/alpha/)[ #58 already ](/bip39-word/already/)[ #59 also ](/bip39-word/also/)[ #60 alter ](/bip39-word/alter/)[ #62 amateur ](/bip39-word/amateur/)[ #63 amazing ](/bip39-word/amazing/)[ #64 among ](/bip39-word/among/)[ #65 amount ](/bip39-word/amount/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [How to Generate a BIP39 Seed Phrase with Dice, Step by Step](/seed-phrase-with-dice/)
- [Derivation Path Explained: What m/44'/0'/0'/0/0 Means](/derivation-path/)
- [Seed Phrase Scams: How Thieves Get Your Recovery Words](/seed-phrase-scams/)

[ Full BIP39 Wordlist ](/)