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title: "BIP39 Word #142: balance — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/balance/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #142 00010001101 

# balance — BIP39 word #142

"**balance**" is word #142 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [bag](/bip39-word/bag/) and [balcony](/bip39-word/balcony/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00010001101`, decimal index 141\. 

/ˈbæləns/  · _noun:_ an even spread of weight that keeps something steady 

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

## Binary Representation

Four 1-bits and seven 0-bits; 330 of the 2048 indexes have exactly four 1-bits.

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

[museum](/bip39-word/museum/)[faculty](/bip39-word/faculty/)[coyote](/bip39-word/coyote/)[accuse](/bip39-word/accuse/)[boost](/bip39-word/boost/)[between](/bip39-word/between/)[beauty](/bip39-word/beauty/)[awful](/bip39-word/awful/)[bachelor](/bip39-word/bachelor/)[ball](/bip39-word/ball/)[bag](/bip39-word/bag/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x08D

4-Letter Prefix

bala

## About "balance" in BIP39

- "balance" has 7 letters, but the first four, **"bala"**, already identify it, because **"bal"** also begins [balcony](/bip39-word/balcony/) and [ball](/bip39-word/ball/).
- **"bala"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins balancer in the [French list](/french/), balanza in the [Spanish list](/spanish/) and balada in the [Czech list](/czech/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #142 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) cela 

[French](/french/) arpenter 

[Italian](/italian/) arrosto 

[Japanese](/japanese/) いわゆる 

[Korean](/korean/) 공원 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) anjo 

[Spanish](/spanish/) ardilla 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Words sharing the first three letters "bal":

[balcony](/bip39-word/balcony/)[ball](/bip39-word/ball/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "B"

[ #138 bachelor ](/bip39-word/bachelor/)[ #139 bacon ](/bip39-word/bacon/)[ #140 badge ](/bip39-word/badge/)[ #141 bag ](/bip39-word/bag/)[ #143 balcony ](/bip39-word/balcony/)[ #144 ball ](/bip39-word/ball/)[ #145 bamboo ](/bip39-word/bamboo/)[ #146 banana ](/bip39-word/banana/) 

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

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- [12 vs 24 Word Seed Phrase: Which Is More Secure?](/12-vs-24-word-seed-phrase/)
- [BIP 157 Client-Side Block Filtering: Compact Filters Explained](/bip-157-client-side-block-filtering/)
- [Bitcoin Core Seed Phrase: Why There Is None and How to Back Up](/bitcoin-core-seed-phrase-backup-guide/)

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