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title: "BIP39 Word #124: author — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/author/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #124 00001111011 

# author — BIP39 word #124

"**author**" is word #124 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [aunt](/bip39-word/aunt/) and [auto](/bip39-word/auto/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00001111011`, decimal index 123\. 

/ˈɔːθə/  · _noun:_ a person who writes a book, article or other text 

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

## 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):

[month](/bip39-word/month/)[exhaust](/bip39-word/exhaust/)[control](/bip39-word/control/)[buyer](/bip39-word/buyer/)[alter](/bip39-word/alter/)[arena](/bip39-word/arena/)[aspect](/bip39-word/aspect/)[attack](/bip39-word/attack/)[avocado](/bip39-word/avocado/)[august](/bip39-word/august/)[aunt](/bip39-word/aunt/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x07B

4-Letter Prefix

auth

## About "author" in BIP39

- "author" has 6 letters, but the first four, **"auth"**, already identify it, because **"aut"** also begins [auto](/bip39-word/auto/) and [autumn](/bip39-word/autumn/).

## Word #124 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) buldok 

[French](/french/) aplanir 

[Italian](/italian/) arachide 

[Japanese](/japanese/) いもたれ 

[Korean](/korean/) 고향 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) amistoso 

[Spanish](/spanish/) apio 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Read aloud, "author" /ˈɔːθə/ is one sound away from this word: 

[order /ˈɔːdə/](/bip39-word/order/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "aut":

[auto](/bip39-word/auto/)[autumn](/bip39-word/autumn/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "A"

[ #120 auction ](/bip39-word/auction/)[ #121 audit ](/bip39-word/audit/)[ #122 august ](/bip39-word/august/)[ #123 aunt ](/bip39-word/aunt/)[ #125 auto ](/bip39-word/auto/)[ #126 autumn ](/bip39-word/autumn/)[ #127 average ](/bip39-word/average/)[ #128 avocado ](/bip39-word/avocado/) 

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

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