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title: "BIP39 Word #231: broom — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/broom/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #231 00011100110 

# broom — BIP39 word #231

"**broom**" is word #231 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [bronze](/bip39-word/bronze/) and [brother](/bip39-word/brother/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00011100110`, decimal index 230\. 

/bruːm/  · _noun:_ a brush with a long handle used for sweeping floors 

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

## 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):

[orphan](/bip39-word/orphan/)[fresh](/bip39-word/fresh/)[devote](/bip39-word/devote/)[art](/bip39-word/art/)[below](/bip39-word/below/)[boat](/bip39-word/boat/)[burst](/bip39-word/burst/)[build](/bip39-word/build/)[brisk](/bip39-word/brisk/)[broken](/bip39-word/broken/)[brother](/bip39-word/brother/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x0E6

4-Letter Prefix

broo

## About "broom" in BIP39

- "broom" has 5 letters, but the first four, **"broo"**, already identify it, because **"bro"** also begins [broccoli](/bip39-word/broccoli/), [broken](/bip39-word/broken/), [bronze](/bip39-word/bronze/), [brother](/bip39-word/brother/) and [brown](/bip39-word/brown/).

## Word #231 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) dioda 

[French](/french/) bicycle 

[Italian](/italian/) bilancia 

[Japanese](/japanese/) えもの 

[Korean](/korean/) 근교 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) azedo 

[Spanish](/spanish/) batalla 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

Words sharing the first three letters "bro":

[broccoli](/bip39-word/broccoli/)[broken](/bip39-word/broken/)[bronze](/bip39-word/bronze/)[brother](/bip39-word/brother/)[brown](/bip39-word/brown/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "B"

[ #227 brisk ](/bip39-word/brisk/)[ #228 broccoli ](/bip39-word/broccoli/)[ #229 broken ](/bip39-word/broken/)[ #230 bronze ](/bip39-word/bronze/)[ #232 brother ](/bip39-word/brother/)[ #233 brown ](/bip39-word/brown/)[ #234 brush ](/bip39-word/brush/)[ #235 bubble ](/bip39-word/bubble/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [Seed Phrase vs Private Key: What's the Difference?](/seed-phrase-vs-private-key/)
- [Private Key QR Code Risks: Why Online Generators Are Unsafe](/qr-code-private-key-security-risks/)
- [Seed Phrase Formats by Network: BIP39 and the Exceptions](/seed-phrase-formats-by-network/)

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