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title: "BIP39 Word #135: awkward — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/awkward/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #135 00010000110 

# awkward — BIP39 word #135

"**awkward**" is word #135 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [awful](/bip39-word/awful/) and [axis](/bip39-word/axis/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00010000110`, decimal index 134\. 

/ˈɔːkwəd/  · _adjective:_ causing difficulty or embarrassment, or moving clumsily 

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

## 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):

[move](/bip39-word/move/)[express](/bip39-word/express/)[cotton](/bip39-word/cotton/)[absorb](/bip39-word/absorb/)[boat](/bip39-word/boat/)[below](/bip39-word/below/)[barrel](/bip39-word/barrel/)[balcony](/bip39-word/balcony/)[aware](/bip39-word/aware/)[awesome](/bip39-word/awesome/)[axis](/bip39-word/axis/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x086

4-Letter Prefix

awkw

## About "awkward" in BIP39

- "awkward" has 7 letters, but the first three, **"awk"**, already identify it, because **"aw"** also begins [awake](/bip39-word/awake/), [aware](/bip39-word/aware/), [away](/bip39-word/away/), [awesome](/bip39-word/awesome/) and [awful](/bip39-word/awful/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.

## Word #135 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) bzukot 

[French](/french/) ardoise 

[Italian](/italian/) argine 

[Japanese](/japanese/) いれもの 

[Korean](/korean/) 공동 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) anarquia 

[Spanish](/spanish/) arar 

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

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "A"

[ #1 abandon ](/bip39-word/abandon/)[ #2 ability ](/bip39-word/ability/)[ #3 able ](/bip39-word/able/)[ #131 aware ](/bip39-word/aware/)[ #132 away ](/bip39-word/away/)[ #133 awesome ](/bip39-word/awesome/)[ #134 awful ](/bip39-word/awful/)[ #136 axis ](/bip39-word/axis/) 

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

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