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title: "BIP39 Word #232: brother — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/brother/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #232 00011100111 

# brother — BIP39 word #232

"**brother**" is word #232 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [broom](/bip39-word/broom/) and [brown](/bip39-word/brown/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00011100111`, decimal index 231\. 

/ˈbrʌðə/  · _noun:_ a male who has the same parents as another person 

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

## Binary Representation

Six 1-bits and five 0-bits; 462 of the 2048 indexes have exactly six 1-bits.

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

[ostrich](/bip39-word/ostrich/)[friend](/bip39-word/friend/)[diagram](/bip39-word/diagram/)[artefact](/bip39-word/artefact/)[belt](/bip39-word/belt/)[body](/bip39-word/body/)[bus](/bip39-word/bus/)[bulb](/bip39-word/bulb/)[broccoli](/bip39-word/broccoli/)[bronze](/bip39-word/bronze/)[broom](/bip39-word/broom/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x0E7

4-Letter Prefix

brot

## About "brother" in BIP39

- "brother" has 7 letters, but the first four, **"brot"**, already identify it, because **"bro"** also begins [broccoli](/bip39-word/broccoli/), [broken](/bip39-word/broken/), [bronze](/bip39-word/bronze/), [broom](/bip39-word/broom/) and [brown](/bip39-word/brown/).
- **"brot"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins brote in the [Spanish list](/spanish/) and broto in the [Portuguese list](/portuguese/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #232 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) diplom 

[French](/french/) bidule 

[Italian](/italian/) bimbo 

[Japanese](/japanese/) えらい 

[Korean](/korean/) 근래 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) azeite 

[Spanish](/spanish/) batería 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Words sharing the first three letters "bro":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "B"

[ #228 broccoli ](/bip39-word/broccoli/)[ #229 broken ](/bip39-word/broken/)[ #230 bronze ](/bip39-word/bronze/)[ #231 broom ](/bip39-word/broom/)[ #233 brown ](/bip39-word/brown/)[ #234 brush ](/bip39-word/brush/)[ #235 bubble ](/bip39-word/bubble/)[ #236 buddy ](/bip39-word/buddy/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [BIP39 vs BIP32 vs BIP44: How the Seed Standards Fit Together](/crypto-seed-standards-bip39-vs-bip32-vs-bip44/)
- [How to Memorize a Seed Phrase: Color, Story and Palace Methods](/seed-phrase-memory/)
- [What Is a Seed Phrase? How a Recovery Phrase Works](/recovery-seed-phrase-guide/)

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