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title: "BIP39 Word #245: burden — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/burden/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #245 00011110100 

# burden — BIP39 word #245

"**burden**" is word #245 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [bunker](/bip39-word/bunker/) and [burger](/bip39-word/burger/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00011110100`, decimal index 244\. 

/ˈbɜːdn/  · _noun:_ a heavy load or a serious responsibility that is hard to bear 

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

## 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):

[ozone](/bip39-word/ozone/)[future](/bip39-word/future/)[direct](/bip39-word/direct/)[attend](/bip39-word/attend/)[bird](/bip39-word/bird/)[box](/bip39-word/box/)[broken](/bip39-word/broken/)[buzz](/bip39-word/buzz/)[bulk](/bip39-word/bulk/)[burst](/bip39-word/burst/)[burger](/bip39-word/burger/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x0F4

4-Letter Prefix

burd

## About "burden" in BIP39

- "burden" has 6 letters, but the first four, **"burd"**, already identify it, because **"bur"** also begins [burger](/bip39-word/burger/) and [burst](/bip39-word/burst/).

## Word #245 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) dodnes 

[French](/french/) bizarre 

[Italian](/italian/) blando 

[Japanese](/japanese/) おいこす 

[Korean](/korean/) 금액 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) bajular 

[Spanish](/spanish/) bingo 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Read aloud, "burden" /ˈbɜːdn/ is one sound away from this word: 

[bird /bɜːd/](/bip39-word/bird/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "bur":

[burger](/bip39-word/burger/)[burst](/bip39-word/burst/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "B"

[ #241 bulk ](/bip39-word/bulk/)[ #242 bullet ](/bip39-word/bullet/)[ #243 bundle ](/bip39-word/bundle/)[ #244 bunker ](/bip39-word/bunker/)[ #246 burger ](/bip39-word/burger/)[ #247 burst ](/bip39-word/burst/)[ #248 bus ](/bip39-word/bus/)[ #249 business ](/bip39-word/business/) 

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

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