Word #197 00011000100

blush — BIP39 word #197

"blush" is word #197 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between blur and board. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 00011000100, decimal index 196.

/blʌʃ/ · verb: to become red in the face from embarrassment or shame

Russian: румянец

Binary Representation

Three 1-bits and eight 0-bits; 165 of the 2048 indexes have exactly three 1-bits.

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

Position

#197 of 2048

Hex Index

0x0C4

4-Letter Prefix

blus

About "blush" in BIP39

  • "blush" has 5 letters, but the first four, "blus", already identify it, because "blu" also begins blue and blur.
  • "blus" is unique only within the English list: it also begins blusa in the Spanish list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

Word #197 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech cizost
French balcon
Italian balena
Japanese うりあげ
Korean 국내
Portuguese atacado
Spanish avellana

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

3 BIP39 words differ from "blush" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:

Read aloud, "blush" /blʌʃ/ is one sound away from this word:

Words sharing the first three letters "blu":

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