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title: "BIP39 Word #172: betray — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/betray/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #172 00010101011 

# betray — BIP39 word #172

"**betray**" is word #172 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [best](/bip39-word/best/) and [better](/bip39-word/better/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00010101011`, decimal index 171\. 

/bɪˈtreɪ/  · _verb:_ to break someone's trust by being disloyal to them 

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

## 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):

[nice](/bip39-word/nice/)[fever](/bip39-word/fever/)[cube](/bip39-word/cube/)[air](/bip39-word/air/)[buddy](/bip39-word/buddy/)[badge](/bip39-word/badge/)[blast](/bip39-word/blast/)[behave](/bip39-word/behave/)[bicycle](/bip39-word/bicycle/)[benefit](/bip39-word/benefit/)[best](/bip39-word/best/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x0AB

4-Letter Prefix

betr

## About "betray" in BIP39

- "betray" has 6 letters, but the first four, **"betr"**, already identify it, because **"bet"** also begins [better](/bip39-word/better/) and [between](/bip39-word/between/).

## Word #172 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) choroba 

[French](/french/) augurer 

[Italian](/italian/) attuale 

[Japanese](/japanese/) うちあわせ 

[Korean](/korean/) 교과서 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) areia 

[Spanish](/spanish/) astuto 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Words sharing the first three letters "bet":

[better](/bip39-word/better/)[between](/bip39-word/between/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "B"

[ #168 belt ](/bip39-word/belt/)[ #169 bench ](/bip39-word/bench/)[ #170 benefit ](/bip39-word/benefit/)[ #171 best ](/bip39-word/best/)[ #173 better ](/bip39-word/better/)[ #174 between ](/bip39-word/between/)[ #175 beyond ](/bip39-word/beyond/)[ #176 bicycle ](/bip39-word/bicycle/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [How to Restore a Wallet From a Seed Phrase: Step by Step](/restore-wallet-from-seed-phrase/)
- [xpub, ypub and zpub: Extended Public Keys Explained](/xpub-ypub-zpub/)
- [SLIP-39 vs BIP39: Shamir Backup and 20-Word Shares Explained](/slip39-vs-bip39/)

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