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title: "BIP39 Word #233: brown — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/brown/"
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updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #233 00011101000 

# brown — BIP39 word #233

"**brown**" is word #233 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [brother](/bip39-word/brother/) and [brush](/bip39-word/brush/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00011101000`, decimal index 232\. 

/braʊn/  · _adjective:_ having the color of wood or soil 

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

## Binary Representation

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

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

[other](/bip39-word/other/)[fringe](/bip39-word/fringe/)[dial](/bip39-word/dial/)[artist](/bip39-word/artist/)[bench](/bip39-word/bench/)[boil](/bip39-word/boil/)[business](/bip39-word/business/)[bright](/bip39-word/bright/)[budget](/bip39-word/budget/)[bubble](/bip39-word/bubble/)[brush](/bip39-word/brush/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x0E8

4-Letter Prefix

brow

## About "brown" in BIP39

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

## Word #233 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) disk 

[French](/french/) bijou 

[Italian](/italian/) binocolo 

[Japanese](/japanese/) えらぶ 

[Korean](/korean/) 근로 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) azulejo 

[Spanish](/spanish/) batir 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

Read aloud, "brown" /braʊn/ is one sound away from this word: 

[brain /breɪn/](/bip39-word/brain/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "bro":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "B"

[ #229 broken ](/bip39-word/broken/)[ #230 bronze ](/bip39-word/bronze/)[ #231 broom ](/bip39-word/broom/)[ #232 brother ](/bip39-word/brother/)[ #234 brush ](/bip39-word/brush/)[ #235 bubble ](/bip39-word/bubble/)[ #236 buddy ](/bip39-word/buddy/)[ #237 budget ](/bip39-word/budget/) 

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

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