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title: "BIP39 Word #146: banana — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/banana/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #146 00010010001 

# banana — BIP39 word #146

"**banana**" is word #146 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [bamboo](/bip39-word/bamboo/) and [banner](/bip39-word/banner/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00010010001`, decimal index 145\. 

/bəˈnɑːnə/  · _noun:_ a long curved fruit with yellow skin and soft flesh 

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

## 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):

[mutual](/bip39-word/mutual/)[fall](/bip39-word/fall/)[cram](/bip39-word/cram/)[acquire](/bip39-word/acquire/)[boss](/bip39-word/boss/)[bike](/bip39-word/bike/)[awake](/bip39-word/awake/)[basket](/bip39-word/basket/)[bargain](/bip39-word/bargain/)[bar](/bip39-word/bar/)[bamboo](/bip39-word/bamboo/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x091

4-Letter Prefix

bana

## About "banana" in BIP39

- "banana" has 6 letters, but the first four, **"bana"**, already identify it, because **"ban"** also begins [banner](/bip39-word/banner/).
- **"bana"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins banal in the [Portuguese list](/portuguese/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #146 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) cenina 

[French](/french/) arsenic 

[Italian](/italian/) arzillo 

[Japanese](/japanese/) いんよう 

[Korean](/korean/) 공통 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) anterior 

[Spanish](/spanish/) aries 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Words sharing the first three letters "ban":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "B"

[ #142 balance ](/bip39-word/balance/)[ #143 balcony ](/bip39-word/balcony/)[ #144 ball ](/bip39-word/ball/)[ #145 bamboo ](/bip39-word/bamboo/)[ #147 banner ](/bip39-word/banner/)[ #148 bar ](/bip39-word/bar/)[ #149 barely ](/bip39-word/barely/)[ #150 bargain ](/bip39-word/bargain/) 

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

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