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title: "BIP39 Word #134: awful — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/awful/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #134 00010000101 

# awful — BIP39 word #134

"**awful**" is word #134 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [awesome](/bip39-word/awesome/) and [awkward](/bip39-word/awkward/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00010000101`, decimal index 133\. 

/ˈɔːfʊl/  · _adjective:_ very bad or unpleasant 

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

## Binary Representation

Three 1-bits and eight 0-bits; 165 of the 2048 indexes have exactly three 1-bits.

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

[mouse](/bip39-word/mouse/)[expose](/bip39-word/expose/)[cost](/bip39-word/cost/)[absent](/bip39-word/absent/)[board](/bip39-word/board/)[believe](/bip39-word/believe/)[bargain](/bip39-word/bargain/)[balance](/bip39-word/balance/)[awake](/bip39-word/awake/)[axis](/bip39-word/axis/)[awesome](/bip39-word/awesome/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x085

4-Letter Prefix

awfu

## About "awful" in BIP39

- "awful" has 5 letters, but the first three, **"awf"**, already identify it, because **"aw"** also begins [awake](/bip39-word/awake/), [aware](/bip39-word/aware/), [away](/bip39-word/away/), [awesome](/bip39-word/awesome/) and [awkward](/bip39-word/awkward/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.

## Word #134 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) bytovka 

[French](/french/) ardeur 

[Italian](/italian/) argento 

[Japanese](/japanese/) いれい 

[Korean](/korean/) 공기 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) analisar 

[Spanish](/spanish/) araña 

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

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "A"

[ #1 abandon ](/bip39-word/abandon/)[ #2 ability ](/bip39-word/ability/)[ #130 awake ](/bip39-word/awake/)[ #131 aware ](/bip39-word/aware/)[ #132 away ](/bip39-word/away/)[ #133 awesome ](/bip39-word/awesome/)[ #135 awkward ](/bip39-word/awkward/)[ #136 axis ](/bip39-word/axis/) 

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

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