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title: "BIP39 Word #156: beach — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/beach/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #156 00010011011 

# beach — BIP39 word #156

"**beach**" is word #156 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [battle](/bip39-word/battle/) and [bean](/bip39-word/bean/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00010011011`, decimal index 155\. 

/biːʧ/  · _noun:_ an area of sand or stones beside the sea 

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

## Binary Representation

Five 1-bits and six 0-bits; 462 of the 2048 indexes have exactly five 1-bits.

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

[nature](/bip39-word/nature/)[fat](/bip39-word/fat/)[cricket](/bip39-word/cricket/)[address](/bip39-word/address/)[bread](/bip39-word/bread/)[blast](/bip39-word/blast/)[badge](/bip39-word/badge/)[bar](/bip39-word/bar/)[become](/bip39-word/become/)[basket](/bip39-word/basket/)[battle](/bip39-word/battle/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x09B

4-Letter Prefix

beac

## About "beach" in BIP39

- "beach" has 5 letters, but the first four, **"beac"**, already identify it, because **"bea"** also begins [bean](/bip39-word/bean/) and [beauty](/bip39-word/beauty/).

## Word #156 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) chata 

[French](/french/) assurer 

[Italian](/italian/) assaggio 

[Japanese](/japanese/) うけたまわる 

[Korean](/korean/) 관계 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) apesar 

[Spanish](/spanish/) artista 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

 2 BIP39 words differ from "beach" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand: 

[bench](/bip39-word/bench/)[teach](/bip39-word/teach/) 

Read aloud, "beach" /biːʧ/ is one sound away from these 2 words: 

[bean /biːn/](/bip39-word/bean/)[beef /biːf/](/bip39-word/beef/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "bea":

[bean](/bip39-word/bean/)[beauty](/bip39-word/beauty/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "B"

[ #152 base ](/bip39-word/base/)[ #153 basic ](/bip39-word/basic/)[ #154 basket ](/bip39-word/basket/)[ #155 battle ](/bip39-word/battle/)[ #157 bean ](/bip39-word/bean/)[ #158 beauty ](/bip39-word/beauty/)[ #159 because ](/bip39-word/because/)[ #160 become ](/bip39-word/become/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [How to Store a Seed Phrase: Paper, Steel and Safe Locations](/store-a-seed-phrase/)
- [How to Restore a Wallet From a Seed Phrase: Step by Step](/restore-wallet-from-seed-phrase/)
- [xpub, ypub and zpub: Extended Public Keys Explained](/xpub-ypub-zpub/)

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