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title: "BIP39 Word #164: behave — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/behave/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #164 00010100011 

# behave — BIP39 word #164

"**behave**" is word #164 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [begin](/bip39-word/begin/) and [behind](/bip39-word/behind/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00010100011`, decimal index 163\. 

/bɪˈheɪv/  · _verb:_ to act in a particular way, especially in a polite way 

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

## 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):

[nerve](/bip39-word/nerve/)[federal](/bip39-word/federal/)[crucial](/bip39-word/crucial/)[afford](/bip39-word/afford/)[broccoli](/bip39-word/broccoli/)[away](/bip39-word/away/)[biology](/bip39-word/biology/)[betray](/bip39-word/betray/)[belt](/bip39-word/belt/)[before](/bip39-word/before/)[begin](/bip39-word/begin/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x0A3

4-Letter Prefix

beha

## About "behave" in BIP39

- "behave" has 6 letters, but the first four, **"beha"**, already identify it, because **"beh"** also begins [behind](/bip39-word/behind/).

## Word #164 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) chmel 

[French](/french/) attaque 

[Italian](/italian/) atavico 

[Japanese](/japanese/) うさぎ 

[Korean](/korean/) 관점 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) aprendiz 

[Spanish](/spanish/) asiento 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Words sharing the first three letters "beh":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "B"

[ #160 become ](/bip39-word/become/)[ #161 beef ](/bip39-word/beef/)[ #162 before ](/bip39-word/before/)[ #163 begin ](/bip39-word/begin/)[ #165 behind ](/bip39-word/behind/)[ #166 believe ](/bip39-word/believe/)[ #167 below ](/bip39-word/below/)[ #168 belt ](/bip39-word/belt/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [Invalid Seed Phrase? How to Find and Fix a Wrong Word (BIP39)](/how-to-fix-seed-phrase-errors/)
- [Ethereum Keystore File (JSON Wallet): Structure and Security](/json-wallets-explained/)
- [What Is BIP39? The Standard Behind Seed Phrases](/bip39-the-foundation-of-crypto-wallet-security/)

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