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title: "BIP39 Word #139: bacon — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/bacon/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #139 00010001010 

# bacon — BIP39 word #139

"**bacon**" is word #139 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [bachelor](/bip39-word/bachelor/) and [badge](/bip39-word/badge/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00010001010`, decimal index 138\. 

/ˈbeɪkᵊn/  · _noun:_ salted or smoked meat from the back or sides of a pig 

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

## 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):

[mule](/bip39-word/mule/)[eyebrow](/bip39-word/eyebrow/)[course](/bip39-word/course/)[access](/bip39-word/access/)[bone](/bip39-word/bone/)[best](/bip39-word/best/)[battle](/bip39-word/battle/)[aware](/bip39-word/aware/)[balcony](/bip39-word/balcony/)[baby](/bip39-word/baby/)[badge](/bip39-word/badge/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x08A

4-Letter Prefix

baco

## About "bacon" in BIP39

- "bacon" has 5 letters, but the first four, **"baco"**, already identify it, because **"bac"** also begins [bachelor](/bip39-word/bachelor/).
- **"baco"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins baco in the [Italian list](/italian/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #139 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) cedule 

[French](/french/) armement 

[Italian](/italian/) arnese 

[Japanese](/japanese/) いわう 

[Korean](/korean/) 공식 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) anexo 

[Spanish](/spanish/) archivo 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Words sharing the first three letters "bac":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "B"

[ #137 baby ](/bip39-word/baby/)[ #138 bachelor ](/bip39-word/bachelor/)[ #140 badge ](/bip39-word/badge/)[ #141 bag ](/bip39-word/bag/)[ #142 balance ](/bip39-word/balance/)[ #143 balcony ](/bip39-word/balcony/)[ #252 buyer ](/bip39-word/buyer/)[ #253 buzz ](/bip39-word/buzz/) 

[View all words starting with "B" ](/bip39-words/b/) 

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