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title: "BIP39 Word #162: before — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/before/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #162 00010100001 

# before — BIP39 word #162

"**before**" is word #162 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [beef](/bip39-word/beef/) and [begin](/bip39-word/begin/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00010100001`, decimal index 161\. 

/bɪˈfɔː/  · _preposition:_ earlier than a particular time or event 

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

## 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):

[neither](/bip39-word/neither/)[feature](/bip39-word/feature/)[crouch](/bip39-word/crouch/)[aerobic](/bip39-word/aerobic/)[bring](/bip39-word/bring/)[awake](/bip39-word/awake/)[bike](/bip39-word/bike/)[benefit](/bip39-word/benefit/)[believe](/bip39-word/believe/)[behave](/bip39-word/behave/)[beef](/bip39-word/beef/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x0A1

4-Letter Prefix

befo

## About "before" in BIP39

- "before" has 6 letters, but the first three, **"bef"**, already identify it, because **"be"** also begins 19 other words, among them [beach](/bip39-word/beach/), [bean](/bip39-word/bean/), [beauty](/bip39-word/beauty/) and [because](/bip39-word/because/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.

## Word #162 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) chleba 

[French](/french/) atrium 

[Italian](/italian/) astice 

[Japanese](/japanese/) うごく 

[Korean](/korean/) 관습 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) apontar 

[Spanish](/spanish/) aseo 

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

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "B"

[ #158 beauty ](/bip39-word/beauty/)[ #159 because ](/bip39-word/because/)[ #160 become ](/bip39-word/become/)[ #161 beef ](/bip39-word/beef/)[ #163 begin ](/bip39-word/begin/)[ #164 behave ](/bip39-word/behave/)[ #165 behind ](/bip39-word/behind/)[ #166 believe ](/bip39-word/believe/) 

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

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