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title: "BIP39 Word #224: brief — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/brief/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #224 00011011111 

# brief — BIP39 word #224

"**brief**" is word #224 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [bridge](/bip39-word/bridge/) and [bright](/bip39-word/bright/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00011011111`, decimal index 223\. 

/briːf/  · _adjective:_ lasting only a short time, or using few words 

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

## Binary Representation

Seven 1-bits and four 0-bits; 330 of the 2048 indexes have exactly seven 1-bits.

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

[orbit](/bip39-word/orbit/)[fossil](/bip39-word/fossil/)[desk](/bip39-word/desk/)[armor](/bip39-word/armor/)[become](/bip39-word/become/)[cable](/bip39-word/cable/)[boring](/bip39-word/boring/)[brain](/bip39-word/brain/)[bread](/bip39-word/bread/)[brick](/bip39-word/brick/)[bridge](/bip39-word/bridge/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x0DF

4-Letter Prefix

brie

## About "brief" in BIP39

- "brief" has 5 letters, but the first four, **"brie"**, already identify it, because **"bri"** also begins [brick](/bip39-word/brick/), [bridge](/bip39-word/bridge/), [bright](/bip39-word/bright/), [bring](/bip39-word/bring/) and [brisk](/bip39-word/brisk/).

## Word #224 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) demokrat 

[French](/french/) berline 

[Italian](/italian/) berlina 

[Japanese](/japanese/) えすて 

[Korean](/korean/) 그릇 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) avental 

[Spanish](/spanish/) barba 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

Read aloud, "brief" /briːf/ is one sound away from these 2 words: 

[beef /biːf/](/bip39-word/beef/)[breeze /briːz/](/bip39-word/breeze/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "bri":

[brick](/bip39-word/brick/)[bridge](/bip39-word/bridge/)[bright](/bip39-word/bright/)[bring](/bip39-word/bring/)[brisk](/bip39-word/brisk/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "B"

[ #220 bread ](/bip39-word/bread/)[ #221 breeze ](/bip39-word/breeze/)[ #222 brick ](/bip39-word/brick/)[ #223 bridge ](/bip39-word/bridge/)[ #225 bright ](/bip39-word/bright/)[ #226 bring ](/bip39-word/bring/)[ #227 brisk ](/bip39-word/brisk/)[ #228 broccoli ](/bip39-word/broccoli/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [BIP 44 – Multi-Account Hierarchy for Deterministic Wallets](/bip-44-multi-account-hierarchy-for-deterministic-wallets/)
- [Electrum Seed vs BIP39: Why Other Wallets Reject It](/electrum-seed-vs-bip39/)
- [Cold Sharding: Splitting a Private Key Into Offline Shamir Shares](/cold-sharding-method-private-key-storage-strategy/)

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