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title: "BIP39 Word #189: bleak — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/bleak/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #189 00010111100 

# bleak — BIP39 word #189

"**bleak**" is word #189 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [blast](/bip39-word/blast/) and [bless](/bip39-word/bless/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00010111100`, decimal index 188\. 

/bliːk/  · _adjective:_ cold and bare, or offering little hope 

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

## 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):

[nurse](/bip39-word/nurse/)[fiscal](/bip39-word/fiscal/)[daring](/bip39-word/daring/)[always](/bip39-word/always/)[buzz](/bip39-word/buzz/)[bean](/bip39-word/bean/)[better](/bip39-word/better/)[bird](/bip39-word/bird/)[blade](/bip39-word/blade/)[blind](/bip39-word/blind/)[bless](/bip39-word/bless/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x0BC

4-Letter Prefix

blea

## About "bleak" in BIP39

- "bleak" has 5 letters, but the first four, **"blea"**, already identify it, because **"ble"** also begins [bless](/bip39-word/bless/).

## Word #189 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) cihelna 

[French](/french/) axial 

[Italian](/italian/) bacino 

[Japanese](/japanese/) うまれる 

[Korean](/korean/) 구성 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) asfaltar 

[Spanish](/spanish/) aula 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Read aloud, "bleak" /bliːk/ is one sound away from this word: 

[black /blæk/](/bip39-word/black/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "ble":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "B"

[ #185 blade ](/bip39-word/blade/)[ #186 blame ](/bip39-word/blame/)[ #187 blanket ](/bip39-word/blanket/)[ #188 blast ](/bip39-word/blast/)[ #190 bless ](/bip39-word/bless/)[ #191 blind ](/bip39-word/blind/)[ #192 blood ](/bip39-word/blood/)[ #193 blossom ](/bip39-word/blossom/) 

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

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