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title: "BIP39 Word #182: birth — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/birth/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #182 00010110101 

# birth — BIP39 word #182

"**birth**" is word #182 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [bird](/bip39-word/bird/) and [bitter](/bip39-word/bitter/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00010110101`, decimal index 181\. 

/bɜːθ/  · _noun:_ the time when a baby comes out of its mother's body 

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

## 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):

[note](/bip39-word/note/)[find](/bip39-word/find/)[cute](/bip39-word/cute/)[allow](/bip39-word/allow/)[burger](/bip39-word/burger/)[bargain](/bip39-word/bargain/)[believe](/bip39-word/believe/)[bless](/bip39-word/bless/)[bike](/bip39-word/bike/)[black](/bip39-word/black/)[bird](/bip39-word/bird/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x0B5

4-Letter Prefix

birt

## About "birth" in BIP39

- "birth" has 5 letters, but the first four, **"birt"**, already identify it, because **"bir"** also begins [bird](/bip39-word/bird/).

## Word #182 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) chvilka 

[French](/french/) aviateur 

[Italian](/italian/) avvolgere 

[Japanese](/japanese/) うなじ 

[Korean](/korean/) 교훈 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) arriscar 

[Spanish](/spanish/) átomo 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Read aloud, "birth" /bɜːθ/ is one sound away from these 3 words: 

[bird /bɜːd/](/bip39-word/bird/)[earth /ɜːθ/](/bip39-word/earth/)[worth /wɜːθ/](/bip39-word/worth/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "bir":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "B"

[ #178 bike ](/bip39-word/bike/)[ #179 bind ](/bip39-word/bind/)[ #180 biology ](/bip39-word/biology/)[ #181 bird ](/bip39-word/bird/)[ #183 bitter ](/bip39-word/bitter/)[ #184 black ](/bip39-word/black/)[ #185 blade ](/bip39-word/blade/)[ #186 blame ](/bip39-word/blame/) 

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

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