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title: "BIP39 Word #129: avoid — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/avoid/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #129 00010000000 

# avoid — BIP39 word #129

"**avoid**" is word #129 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [avocado](/bip39-word/avocado/) and [awake](/bip39-word/awake/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00010000000`, decimal index 128\. 

/əˈvɔɪd/  · _verb:_ to keep away from someone or stop something from happening 

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

## Binary Representation

A single 1-bit: 128 is a power of two, like the indexes of [ability](/bip39-word/ability/), [able](/bip39-word/able/), [above](/bip39-word/above/), [absurd](/bip39-word/absurd/), [acoustic](/bip39-word/acoustic/), [advice](/bip39-word/advice/), [amount](/bip39-word/amount/), [cactus](/bip39-word/cactus/), [divorce](/bip39-word/divorce/) and [length](/bip39-word/length/).

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

[mosquito](/bip39-word/mosquito/)[exotic](/bip39-word/exotic/)[copy](/bip39-word/copy/)[abandon](/bip39-word/abandon/)[blossom](/bip39-word/blossom/)[beef](/bip39-word/beef/)[bamboo](/bip39-word/bamboo/)[baby](/bip39-word/baby/)[awesome](/bip39-word/awesome/)[aware](/bip39-word/aware/)[awake](/bip39-word/awake/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x080

4-Letter Prefix

avoi

## About "avoid" in BIP39

- "avoid" has 5 letters, but the first four, **"avoi"**, already identify it, because **"avo"** also begins [avocado](/bip39-word/avocado/).
- **"avoi"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins avoine in the [French list](/french/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
- "avoid" appears in three of the 24 official English [test vectors](https://github.com/trezor/python-mnemonic/blob/master/vectors.json) of BIP39: vectors #3 (word 8 of 12), #7 (words 8 and 16 of 18) and #11 (words 8 and 16 of 24). 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.

Official test vector #3

[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 [letter](/bip39-word/letter/) [advice](/bip39-word/advice/) [cage](/bip39-word/cage/) [above](/bip39-word/above/) 

## Word #129 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) butik 

[French](/french/) appuyer 

[Italian](/italian/) arazzo 

[Japanese](/japanese/) いよく 

[Korean](/korean/) 공간 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) amostra 

[Spanish](/spanish/) aprender 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

Words sharing the first three letters "avo":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "A"

[ #125 auto ](/bip39-word/auto/)[ #126 autumn ](/bip39-word/autumn/)[ #127 average ](/bip39-word/average/)[ #128 avocado ](/bip39-word/avocado/)[ #130 awake ](/bip39-word/awake/)[ #131 aware ](/bip39-word/aware/)[ #132 away ](/bip39-word/away/)[ #133 awesome ](/bip39-word/awesome/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [Crypto Inheritance: How to Pass On Your Seed Phrase](/crypto-inheritance/)
- [Private Key Export: MetaMask, Trust Wallet, Ledger, Electrum](/convert-seed-phrase-to-private-key-guide/)
- [How to Create a Seed Phrase: Step-by-Step Guide and Examples](/create-a-seed-phrase/)

[ Full BIP39 Wordlist ](/)