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title: "BIP39 Word #120: auction — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/auction/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #120 00001110111 

# auction — BIP39 word #120

"**auction**" is word #120 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [attract](/bip39-word/attract/) and [audit](/bip39-word/audit/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00001110111`, decimal index 119\. 

/ˈɔːkʃ(ə)n/  · _noun:_ a public sale where items go to the highest bidder 

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

## Binary Representation

Six 1-bits and five 0-bits; 462 of the 2048 indexes have exactly six 1-bits.

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

[moment](/bip39-word/moment/)[exclude](/bip39-word/exclude/)[confirm](/bip39-word/confirm/)[bus](/bip39-word/bus/)[alone](/bip39-word/alone/)[april](/bip39-word/april/)[artefact](/bip39-word/artefact/)[avocado](/bip39-word/avocado/)[attack](/bip39-word/attack/)[attitude](/bip39-word/attitude/)[attract](/bip39-word/attract/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x077

4-Letter Prefix

auct

## About "auction" in BIP39

- "auction" has 7 letters, but the first three, **"auc"**, already identify it, because **"au"** also begins [audit](/bip39-word/audit/), [august](/bip39-word/august/), [aunt](/bip39-word/aunt/), [author](/bip39-word/author/), [auto](/bip39-word/auto/) and [autumn](/bip39-word/autumn/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.

## Word #120 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) budova 

[French](/french/) antidote 

[Italian](/italian/) approdo 

[Japanese](/japanese/) いへん 

[Korean](/korean/) 고전 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) ambiente 

[Spanish](/spanish/) año 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "A"

[ #116 attack ](/bip39-word/attack/)[ #117 attend ](/bip39-word/attend/)[ #118 attitude ](/bip39-word/attitude/)[ #119 attract ](/bip39-word/attract/)[ #121 audit ](/bip39-word/audit/)[ #122 august ](/bip39-word/august/)[ #123 aunt ](/bip39-word/aunt/)[ #124 author ](/bip39-word/author/) 

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

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