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title: "BIP39 Word #185: blade — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/blade/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #185 00010111000 

# blade — BIP39 word #185

"**blade**" is word #185 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [black](/bip39-word/black/) and [blame](/bip39-word/blame/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00010111000`, decimal index 184\. 

/bleɪd/  · _noun:_ the flat cutting edge of a knife or tool 

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

## 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):

[novel](/bip39-word/novel/)[finish](/bip39-word/finish/)[damage](/bip39-word/damage/)[alpha](/bip39-word/alpha/)[business](/bip39-word/business/)[basic](/bip39-word/basic/)[bench](/bip39-word/bench/)[bid](/bip39-word/bid/)[bleak](/bip39-word/bleak/)[blanket](/bip39-word/blanket/)[blame](/bip39-word/blame/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x0B8

4-Letter Prefix

blad

## About "blade" in BIP39

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

## Word #185 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) chystat 

[French](/french/) aviser 

[Italian](/italian/) azzimo 

[Japanese](/japanese/) うねる 

[Korean](/korean/) 구멍 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) arsenal 

[Spanish](/spanish/) atún 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

Read aloud, "blade" /bleɪd/ is one sound away from this word: 

[blood /blʌd/](/bip39-word/blood/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "bla":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "B"

[ #181 bird ](/bip39-word/bird/)[ #182 birth ](/bip39-word/birth/)[ #183 bitter ](/bip39-word/bitter/)[ #184 black ](/bip39-word/black/)[ #186 blame ](/bip39-word/blame/)[ #187 blanket ](/bip39-word/blanket/)[ #188 blast ](/bip39-word/blast/)[ #189 bleak ](/bip39-word/bleak/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [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/)
- [What Is a Seed Phrase? How a Recovery Phrase Works](/recovery-seed-phrase-guide/)

[ Full BIP39 Wordlist ](/)