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title: "BIP39 Word #169: bench — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/bench/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #169 00010101000 

# bench — BIP39 word #169

"**bench**" is word #169 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [belt](/bip39-word/belt/) and [benefit](/bip39-word/benefit/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00010101000`, decimal index 168\. 

/bɛnʧ/  · _noun:_ a long seat for several people, often outdoors 

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

## 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):

[never](/bip39-word/never/)[fence](/bip39-word/fence/)[crush](/bip39-word/crush/)[agree](/bip39-word/agree/)[brown](/bip39-word/brown/)[baby](/bip39-word/baby/)[blade](/bip39-word/blade/)[beef](/bip39-word/beef/)[better](/bip39-word/better/)[best](/bip39-word/best/)[benefit](/bip39-word/benefit/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x0A8

4-Letter Prefix

benc

## About "bench" in BIP39

- "bench" has 5 letters, but the first four, **"benc"**, already identify it, because **"ben"** also begins [benefit](/bip39-word/benefit/).

## Word #169 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) cholera 

[French](/french/) auberge 

[Italian](/italian/) attivare 

[Japanese](/japanese/) うすぐらい 

[Korean](/korean/) 광주 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) arara 

[Spanish](/spanish/) áspero 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

Words sharing the first three letters "ben":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "B"

[ #165 behind ](/bip39-word/behind/)[ #166 believe ](/bip39-word/believe/)[ #167 below ](/bip39-word/below/)[ #168 belt ](/bip39-word/belt/)[ #170 benefit ](/bip39-word/benefit/)[ #171 best ](/bip39-word/best/)[ #172 betray ](/bip39-word/betray/)[ #173 better ](/bip39-word/better/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [Seed Phrase Formats by Network: BIP39 and the Exceptions](/seed-phrase-formats-by-network/)
- [BIP39 vs BIP32 vs BIP44: How the Seed Standards Fit Together](/crypto-seed-standards-bip39-vs-bip32-vs-bip44/)
- [How to Memorize a Seed Phrase: Color, Story and Palace Methods](/seed-phrase-memory/)

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