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title: "BIP39 Word #248: bus — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/bus/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #248 00011110111 

# bus — BIP39 word #248

"**bus**" is word #248 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [burst](/bip39-word/burst/) and [business](/bip39-word/business/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00011110111`, decimal index 247\. 

/bʌs/  · _noun:_ a large road vehicle that carries many passengers 

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

## Binary Representation

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

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

[page](/bip39-word/page/)[galaxy](/bip39-word/galaxy/)[discover](/bip39-word/discover/)[auction](/bip39-word/auction/)[black](/bip39-word/black/)[brain](/bip39-word/brain/)[brother](/bip39-word/brother/)[cable](/bip39-word/cable/)[bunker](/bip39-word/bunker/)[burger](/bip39-word/burger/)[burst](/bip39-word/burst/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x0F7

4-Letter Prefix

bus

## About "bus" in BIP39

- All three letters of "bus" also begin longer words: [business](/bip39-word/business/) and [busy](/bip39-word/busy/). So "bus" cannot be shortened, and a backup that keeps the first four letters of each word stores it as **"bus"** but business as **"busi"**.

## Word #248 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) dohra 

[French](/french/) blanchir 

[Italian](/italian/) bonifico 

[Japanese](/japanese/) おうえん 

[Korean](/korean/) 금지 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) balsa 

[Spanish](/spanish/) blusa 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

Read aloud, "bus" /bʌs/ is one sound away from these 3 words: 

[base /beɪs/](/bip39-word/base/)[boss /bɒs/](/bip39-word/boss/)[buzz /bʌz/](/bip39-word/buzz/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "bus":

[business](/bip39-word/business/)[busy](/bip39-word/busy/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "B"

[ #244 bunker ](/bip39-word/bunker/)[ #245 burden ](/bip39-word/burden/)[ #246 burger ](/bip39-word/burger/)[ #247 burst ](/bip39-word/burst/)[ #249 business ](/bip39-word/business/)[ #250 busy ](/bip39-word/busy/)[ #251 butter ](/bip39-word/butter/)[ #252 buyer ](/bip39-word/buyer/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [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/)
- [What Is a Bitcoin Address and How Does It Work?](/what-is-a-bitcoin-address/)

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