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title: "BIP39 Word #91: area — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/area/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #91 00001011010 

# area — BIP39 word #91

"**area**" is word #91 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [arctic](/bip39-word/arctic/) and [arena](/bip39-word/arena/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00001011010`, decimal index 90\. 

/ˈeərɪə/  · _noun:_ a region, space or part of a place 

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

## 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):

[mercy](/bip39-word/mercy/)[ensure](/bip39-word/ensure/)[clip](/bip39-word/clip/)[brave](/bip39-word/brave/)[addict](/bip39-word/addict/)[aunt](/bip39-word/aunt/)[announce](/bip39-word/announce/)[apart](/bip39-word/apart/)[armed](/bip39-word/armed/)[arch](/bip39-word/arch/)[arena](/bip39-word/arena/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x05A

4-Letter Prefix

area

## About "area" in BIP39

- It takes all four letters to identify "area": **"are"** also begins [arena](/bip39-word/arena/).

## Word #91 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) bolest 

[French](/french/) ambre 

[Italian](/italian/) amuleto 

[Japanese](/japanese/) いちおう 

[Korean](/korean/) 경비 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) alcatra 

[Spanish](/spanish/) amargo 

[Traditional Chinese](/chinese-traditional/) 兩 

[Simplified Chinese](/chinese-simplified/) 两 

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

Words sharing the first three letters "are":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "A"

[ #87 approve ](/bip39-word/approve/)[ #88 april ](/bip39-word/april/)[ #89 arch ](/bip39-word/arch/)[ #90 arctic ](/bip39-word/arctic/)[ #92 arena ](/bip39-word/arena/)[ #93 argue ](/bip39-word/argue/)[ #94 arm ](/bip39-word/arm/)[ #95 armed ](/bip39-word/armed/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [BIP39 vs BIP32 vs BIP44: How the Seed Standards Fit Together](/crypto-seed-standards-bip39-vs-bip32-vs-bip44/)
- [How to Memorize a Seed Phrase: Color, Story and Palace Methods](/seed-phrase-memory/)
- [What Is a Seed Phrase? How a Recovery Phrase Works](/recovery-seed-phrase-guide/)

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