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title: "BIP39 Word #184: black — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/black/"
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updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #184 00010110111 

# black — BIP39 word #184

"**black**" is word #184 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [bitter](/bip39-word/bitter/) and [blade](/bip39-word/blade/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00010110111`, decimal index 183\. 

/blæk/  · _adjective:_ of the darkest color, like the night sky or coal 

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

## Binary Representation

Six 1-bits and five 0-bits; 462 of the 2048 indexes have exactly six 1-bits.

One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):

[notice](/bip39-word/notice/)[finger](/bip39-word/finger/)[dad](/bip39-word/dad/)[alone](/bip39-word/alone/)[bus](/bip39-word/bus/)[base](/bip39-word/base/)[belt](/bip39-word/belt/)[blood](/bip39-word/blood/)[biology](/bip39-word/biology/)[birth](/bip39-word/birth/)[bitter](/bip39-word/bitter/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x0B7

4-Letter Prefix

blac

## About "black" in BIP39

- "black" has 5 letters, but the first four, **"blac"**, already identify it, because **"bla"** also begins [blade](/bip39-word/blade/), [blame](/bip39-word/blame/), [blanket](/bip39-word/blanket/) and [blast](/bip39-word/blast/).

## Word #184 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) chyba 

[French](/french/) avion 

[Italian](/italian/) azoto 

[Japanese](/japanese/) うなる 

[Korean](/korean/) 구름 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) arrumar 

[Spanish](/spanish/) atroz 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Read aloud, "black" /blæk/ is one sound away from this word: 

[bleak /bliːk/](/bip39-word/bleak/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "bla":

[blade](/bip39-word/blade/)[blame](/bip39-word/blame/)[blanket](/bip39-word/blanket/)[blast](/bip39-word/blast/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "B"

[ #180 biology ](/bip39-word/biology/)[ #181 bird ](/bip39-word/bird/)[ #182 birth ](/bip39-word/birth/)[ #183 bitter ](/bip39-word/bitter/)[ #185 blade ](/bip39-word/blade/)[ #186 blame ](/bip39-word/blame/)[ #187 blanket ](/bip39-word/blanket/)[ #188 blast ](/bip39-word/blast/) 

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

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