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title: "BIP39 Word #87: approve — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/approve/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #87 00001010110 

# approve — BIP39 word #87

"**approve**" is word #87 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [apple](/bip39-word/apple/) and [april](/bip39-word/april/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00001010110`, decimal index 86\. 

/əˈpruːv/  · _verb:_ to officially accept something or think it is good 

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

## 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):

[member](/bip39-word/member/)[enlist](/bip39-word/enlist/)[client](/bip39-word/client/)[bracket](/bip39-word/bracket/)[actress](/bip39-word/actress/)[attract](/bip39-word/attract/)[angle](/bip39-word/angle/)[armed](/bip39-word/armed/)[apart](/bip39-word/apart/)[appear](/bip39-word/appear/)[april](/bip39-word/april/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x056

4-Letter Prefix

appr

## About "approve" in BIP39

- "approve" has 7 letters, but the first four, **"appr"**, already identify it, because **"app"** also begins [appear](/bip39-word/appear/) and [apple](/bip39-word/apple/).
- **"appr"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins approdo in the [Italian list](/italian/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #87 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) bohatost 

[French](/french/) altesse 

[Italian](/italian/) ammonito 

[Japanese](/japanese/) いだく 

[Korean](/korean/) 경고 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) alastrar 

[Spanish](/spanish/) alzar 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Words sharing the first three letters "app":

[appear](/bip39-word/appear/)[apple](/bip39-word/apple/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "A"

[ #83 apart ](/bip39-word/apart/)[ #84 apology ](/bip39-word/apology/)[ #85 appear ](/bip39-word/appear/)[ #86 apple ](/bip39-word/apple/)[ #88 april ](/bip39-word/april/)[ #89 arch ](/bip39-word/arch/)[ #90 arctic ](/bip39-word/arctic/)[ #91 area ](/bip39-word/area/) 

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

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