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title: "BIP39 Word #163: begin — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/begin/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #163 00010100010 

# begin — BIP39 word #163

"**begin**" is word #163 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [before](/bip39-word/before/) and [behave](/bip39-word/behave/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00010100010`, decimal index 162\. 

/bɪˈgɪn/  · _verb:_ to start doing something or come into existence 

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

## 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):

[nephew](/bip39-word/nephew/)[february](/bip39-word/february/)[crowd](/bip39-word/crowd/)[affair](/bip39-word/affair/)[brisk](/bip39-word/brisk/)[aware](/bip39-word/aware/)[bind](/bip39-word/bind/)[best](/bip39-word/best/)[below](/bip39-word/below/)[beef](/bip39-word/beef/)[behave](/bip39-word/behave/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x0A2

4-Letter Prefix

begi

## About "begin" in BIP39

- "begin" has 5 letters, but the first three, **"beg"**, 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 #163 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) chlubit 

[French](/french/) atroce 

[Italian](/italian/) astratto 

[Japanese](/japanese/) うこん 

[Korean](/korean/) 관심 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) aposta 

[Spanish](/spanish/) asesor 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Read aloud, "begin" /bɪˈgɪn/ is one sound away from this word: 

[bargain /ˈbɑːɡɪn/](/bip39-word/bargain/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "B"

[ #159 because ](/bip39-word/because/)[ #160 become ](/bip39-word/become/)[ #161 beef ](/bip39-word/beef/)[ #162 before ](/bip39-word/before/)[ #164 behave ](/bip39-word/behave/)[ #165 behind ](/bip39-word/behind/)[ #166 believe ](/bip39-word/believe/)[ #167 below ](/bip39-word/below/) 

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

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