--- title: "BIP39 Word #234: brush — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word" url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/brush/" language: "en" updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00" --- Word #234 00011101001 # brush — BIP39 word #234 "**brush**" is word #234 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [brown](/bip39-word/brown/) and [bubble](/bip39-word/bubble/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00011101001`, decimal index 233\. /brʌʃ/ · _noun:_ a tool with bristles used for cleaning, painting or grooming hair [Russian](/ru/ "The BIP39 wordlist with Russian translations"): щётка ## 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): [outdoor](/bip39-word/outdoor/)[frog](/bip39-word/frog/)[diamond](/bip39-word/diamond/)[artwork](/bip39-word/artwork/)[benefit](/bip39-word/benefit/)[bomb](/bip39-word/bomb/)[busy](/bip39-word/busy/)[bring](/bip39-word/bring/)[buffalo](/bip39-word/buffalo/)[buddy](/bip39-word/buddy/)[brown](/bip39-word/brown/) Position Hex Index 0x0E9 4-Letter Prefix brus ## About "brush" in BIP39 - "brush" has 5 letters, but the first three, **"bru"**, already identify it, because **"br"** also begins 19 other words, among them [bracket](/bip39-word/bracket/), [brain](/bip39-word/brain/), [brand](/bip39-word/brand/) and [brass](/bip39-word/brass/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words. - **"brus"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins brusque in the [French list](/french/), brusco in the [Spanish list](/spanish/) and brusinka in the [Czech list](/czech/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses. ## Word #234 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists [Czech](/czech/) displej [French](/french/) bilan [Italian](/italian/) biologo [Japanese](/japanese/) えりあ [Korean](/korean/) 근무 [Portuguese](/portuguese/) babar [Spanish](/spanish/) batuta [Traditional Chinese](/chinese-traditional/) 角 [Simplified Chinese](/chinese-simplified/) 角 ## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery 2 BIP39 words differ from "brush" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand: [blush](/bip39-word/blush/)[crush](/bip39-word/crush/) ## More BIP39 Words Starting with "B" [ #230 bronze ](/bip39-word/bronze/)[ #231 broom ](/bip39-word/broom/)[ #232 brother ](/bip39-word/brother/)[ #233 brown ](/bip39-word/brown/)[ #235 bubble ](/bip39-word/bubble/)[ #236 buddy ](/bip39-word/buddy/)[ #237 budget ](/bip39-word/budget/)[ #238 buffalo ](/bip39-word/buffalo/) [View all words starting with "B" ](/bip39-words/b/) ## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides - [Seed Phrase Scams: How Thieves Get Your Recovery Words](/seed-phrase-scams/) - [How to Store a Seed Phrase: Paper, Steel and Safe Locations](/store-a-seed-phrase/) - [How to Restore a Wallet From a Seed Phrase: Step by Step](/restore-wallet-from-seed-phrase/) [ Full BIP39 Wordlist ](/)