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title: "BIP39 Word #159: because — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/because/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #159 00010011110 

# because — BIP39 word #159

"**because**" is word #159 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [beauty](/bip39-word/beauty/) and [become](/bip39-word/become/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00010011110`, decimal index 158\. 

/bɪˈkɒz/  · _conjunction:_ for the reason that 

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

## 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):

[need](/bip39-word/need/)[fatigue](/bip39-word/fatigue/)[critic](/bip39-word/critic/)[adult](/bip39-word/adult/)[bridge](/bip39-word/bridge/)[blind](/bip39-word/blind/)[balcony](/bip39-word/balcony/)[barrel](/bip39-word/barrel/)[battle](/bip39-word/battle/)[bean](/bip39-word/bean/)[become](/bip39-word/become/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x09E

4-Letter Prefix

beca

## About "because" in BIP39

- "because" has 7 letters, but the first four, **"beca"**, already identify it, because **"bec"** also begins [become](/bip39-word/become/).

## Word #159 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) chichot 

[French](/french/) astuce 

[Italian](/italian/) assurdo 

[Japanese](/japanese/) うけもつ 

[Korean](/korean/) 관람 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) aplauso 

[Spanish](/spanish/) asalto 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Words sharing the first three letters "bec":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "B"

[ #155 battle ](/bip39-word/battle/)[ #156 beach ](/bip39-word/beach/)[ #157 bean ](/bip39-word/bean/)[ #158 beauty ](/bip39-word/beauty/)[ #160 become ](/bip39-word/become/)[ #161 beef ](/bip39-word/beef/)[ #162 before ](/bip39-word/before/)[ #163 begin ](/bip39-word/begin/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [BIP39 Passphrase: How the 25th Word Creates a Hidden Wallet](/bip39-passphrase/)
- [Is My Seed Phrase Compromised? Signs and What to Do Next](/bip39-seed-phrase-compromise/)
- [BIP 32 Explained: Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets](/bip-32/)

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