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title: "BIP39 Word #145: bamboo — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/bamboo/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #145 00010010000 

# bamboo — BIP39 word #145

"**bamboo**" is word #145 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [ball](/bip39-word/ball/) and [banana](/bip39-word/banana/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00010010000`, decimal index 144\. 

/bæmˈbuː/  · _noun:_ a tall tropical grass with hard hollow stems 

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

## Binary Representation

Two 1-bits and nine 0-bits; 55 of the 2048 indexes have exactly two 1-bits.

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

[must](/bip39-word/must/)[faith](/bip39-word/faith/)[craft](/bip39-word/craft/)[acoustic](/bip39-word/acoustic/)[borrow](/bip39-word/borrow/)[bid](/bip39-word/bid/)[avoid](/bip39-word/avoid/)[basic](/bip39-word/basic/)[barely](/bip39-word/barely/)[banner](/bip39-word/banner/)[banana](/bip39-word/banana/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x090

4-Letter Prefix

bamb

## About "bamboo" in BIP39

- "bamboo" has 6 letters, but the first three, **"bam"**, already identify it, because **"ba"** also begins 18 other words, among them [baby](/bip39-word/baby/), [bachelor](/bip39-word/bachelor/), [bacon](/bip39-word/bacon/) and [badge](/bip39-word/badge/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
- **"bamb"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins bambin in the [French list](/french/), bambú in the [Spanish list](/spanish/), bambino in the [Italian list](/italian/) and bambus in the [Czech list](/czech/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #145 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) celnice 

[French](/french/) arroser 

[Italian](/italian/) artefice 

[Japanese](/japanese/) いんしょう 

[Korean](/korean/) 공책 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) ansioso 

[Spanish](/spanish/) árido 

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

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "B"

[ #141 bag ](/bip39-word/bag/)[ #142 balance ](/bip39-word/balance/)[ #143 balcony ](/bip39-word/balcony/)[ #144 ball ](/bip39-word/ball/)[ #146 banana ](/bip39-word/banana/)[ #147 banner ](/bip39-word/banner/)[ #148 bar ](/bip39-word/bar/)[ #149 barely ](/bip39-word/barely/) 

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

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- [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/)
- [BIP 44 – Multi-Account Hierarchy for Deterministic Wallets](/bip-44-multi-account-hierarchy-for-deterministic-wallets/)

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