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title: "BIP39 Word #212: bounce — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/bounce/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #212 00011010011 

# bounce — BIP39 word #212

"**bounce**" is word #212 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [bottom](/bip39-word/bottom/) and [box](/bip39-word/box/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00011010011`, decimal index 211\. 

/baʊns/  · _verb:_ to spring back after hitting a surface 

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

## 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):

[omit](/bip39-word/omit/)[foil](/bip39-word/foil/)[denial](/bip39-word/denial/)[apology](/bip39-word/apology/)[bar](/bip39-word/bar/)[bunker](/bip39-word/bunker/)[blur](/bip39-word/blur/)[bread](/bip39-word/bread/)[brain](/bip39-word/brain/)[boss](/bip39-word/boss/)[bottom](/bip39-word/bottom/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x0D3

4-Letter Prefix

boun

## About "bounce" in BIP39

- "bounce" has 6 letters, but the first three, **"bou"**, already identify it, because **"bo"** also begins 16 other words, among them [board](/bip39-word/board/), [boat](/bip39-word/boat/), [body](/bip39-word/body/) and [boil](/bip39-word/boil/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.

## Word #212 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) daleko 

[French](/french/) bastion 

[Italian](/italian/) baule 

[Japanese](/japanese/) えいきょう 

[Korean](/korean/) 권위 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) atual 

[Spanish](/spanish/) babor 

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

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "B"

[ #208 boring ](/bip39-word/boring/)[ #209 borrow ](/bip39-word/borrow/)[ #210 boss ](/bip39-word/boss/)[ #211 bottom ](/bip39-word/bottom/)[ #213 box ](/bip39-word/box/)[ #214 boy ](/bip39-word/boy/)[ #215 bracket ](/bip39-word/bracket/)[ #216 brain ](/bip39-word/brain/) 

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

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