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title: "BIP39 Word #157: bean — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/bean/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #157 00010011100 

# bean — BIP39 word #157

"**bean**" is word #157 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [beach](/bip39-word/beach/) and [beauty](/bip39-word/beauty/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00010011100`, decimal index 156\. 

/biːn/  · _noun:_ a seed or pod of certain plants eaten as a vegetable 

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

## 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):

[near](/bip39-word/near/)[fatal](/bip39-word/fatal/)[crime](/bip39-word/crime/)[adjust](/bip39-word/adjust/)[breeze](/bip39-word/breeze/)[bleak](/bip39-word/bleak/)[bag](/bip39-word/bag/)[barely](/bip39-word/barely/)[basic](/bip39-word/basic/)[because](/bip39-word/because/)[beauty](/bip39-word/beauty/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x09C

4-Letter Prefix

bean

## About "bean" in BIP39

- It takes all four letters to identify "bean": **"bea"** also begins [beach](/bip39-word/beach/) and [beauty](/bip39-word/beauty/).

## Word #157 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) chechtat 

[French](/french/) asticot 

[Italian](/italian/) asse 

[Japanese](/japanese/) うけつけ 

[Korean](/korean/) 관광 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) apetite 

[Spanish](/spanish/) asa 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

 One BIP39 word differs from "bean" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand: 

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

Read aloud, "bean" /biːn/ is one sound away from these 5 words: 

[beach /biːʧ/](/bip39-word/beach/)[beef /biːf/](/bip39-word/beef/)[bone /bəʊn/](/bip39-word/bone/)[keen /kiːn/](/bip39-word/keen/)[scene /siːn/](/bip39-word/scene/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "bea":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "B"

[ #153 basic ](/bip39-word/basic/)[ #154 basket ](/bip39-word/basket/)[ #155 battle ](/bip39-word/battle/)[ #156 beach ](/bip39-word/beach/)[ #158 beauty ](/bip39-word/beauty/)[ #159 because ](/bip39-word/because/)[ #160 become ](/bip39-word/become/)[ #161 beef ](/bip39-word/beef/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [SLIP-39 vs BIP39: Shamir Backup and 20-Word Shares Explained](/slip39-vs-bip39/)
- [Why You Should Never Create Your Own Seed Phrase](/why-you-should-never-create-your-own-seed-phrase/)
- [12 vs 24 Word Seed Phrase: Which Is More Secure?](/12-vs-24-word-seed-phrase/)

[ Full BIP39 Wordlist ](/)