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title: "BIP39 Word #219: brave — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/brave/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #219 00011011010 

# brave — BIP39 word #219

"**brave**" is word #219 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [brass](/bip39-word/brass/) and [bread](/bip39-word/bread/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00011011010`, decimal index 218\. 

/breɪv/  · _adjective:_ willing to face danger or pain without fear 

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

## 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):

[opera](/bip39-word/opera/)[forget](/bip39-word/forget/)[deputy](/bip39-word/deputy/)[area](/bip39-word/area/)[battle](/bip39-word/battle/)[butter](/bip39-word/butter/)[bone](/bip39-word/bone/)[bottom](/bip39-word/bottom/)[bridge](/bip39-word/bridge/)[brand](/bip39-word/brand/)[bread](/bip39-word/bread/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x0DA

4-Letter Prefix

brav

## About "brave" in BIP39

- "brave" has 5 letters, but the first four, **"brav"**, already identify it, because **"bra"** also begins [bracket](/bip39-word/bracket/), [brain](/bip39-word/brain/), [brand](/bip39-word/brand/) and [brass](/bip39-word/brass/).
- The same spelling is in the [French BIP39 wordlist](/french/), but as word #278 (index 277), not #219\. A wallet set to French reads "brave" as **00100010101** instead of **00011011010**, and decodes index 218 as "bélier".
- **"brav"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins bravo in the [Spanish list](/spanish/), bravura in the [Italian list](/italian/) and braveza in the [Portuguese list](/portuguese/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
- "brave" appears in one of the 24 official English [test vectors](https://github.com/trezor/python-mnemonic/blob/master/vectors.json) of BIP39: vector #17 (word 18 of 18). Every official vector passes the [checksum checker](/bip39-checksum-checker/), and [How BIP39 works](/how-bip39-works/) shows how the entropy turns into such words. As the last word of vector #17, its final 6 bits, **011010**, are the checksum of the 18-word phrase.

Official test vector #17

[horn](/bip39-word/horn/) [tenant](/bip39-word/tenant/) [knee](/bip39-word/knee/) [talent](/bip39-word/talent/) [sponsor](/bip39-word/sponsor/) [spell](/bip39-word/spell/) [gate](/bip39-word/gate/) [clip](/bip39-word/clip/) [pulse](/bip39-word/pulse/) [soap](/bip39-word/soap/) [slush](/bip39-word/slush/) [warm](/bip39-word/warm/) [silver](/bip39-word/silver/) [nephew](/bip39-word/nephew/) [swap](/bip39-word/swap/) [uncle](/bip39-word/uncle/) [crack](/bip39-word/crack/) brave 

## Word #219 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) decibel 

[French](/french/) bélier 

[Italian](/italian/) benda 

[Japanese](/japanese/) えがお 

[Korean](/korean/) 그날 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) autoria 

[Spanish](/spanish/) balde 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Read aloud, "brave" /breɪv/ is one sound away from this word: 

[brain /breɪn/](/bip39-word/brain/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "bra":

[bracket](/bip39-word/bracket/)[brain](/bip39-word/brain/)[brand](/bip39-word/brand/)[brass](/bip39-word/brass/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "B"

[ #215 bracket ](/bip39-word/bracket/)[ #216 brain ](/bip39-word/brain/)[ #217 brand ](/bip39-word/brand/)[ #218 brass ](/bip39-word/brass/)[ #220 bread ](/bip39-word/bread/)[ #221 breeze ](/bip39-word/breeze/)[ #222 brick ](/bip39-word/brick/)[ #223 bridge ](/bip39-word/bridge/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [How to Restore a Wallet From a Seed Phrase: Step by Step](/restore-wallet-from-seed-phrase/)
- [xpub, ypub and zpub: Extended Public Keys Explained](/xpub-ypub-zpub/)
- [SLIP-39 vs BIP39: Shamir Backup and 20-Word Shares Explained](/slip39-vs-bip39/)

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