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title: "BIP39 Word #250: busy — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/busy/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #250 00011111001 

# busy — BIP39 word #250

"**busy**" is word #250 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [business](/bip39-word/business/) and [butter](/bip39-word/butter/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00011111001`, decimal index 249\. 

/ˈbɪzi/  · _adjective:_ having a lot to do, or full of activity 

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

## 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):

[palace](/bip39-word/palace/)[game](/bip39-word/game/)[dish](/bip39-word/dish/)[august](/bip39-word/august/)[blame](/bip39-word/blame/)[brass](/bip39-word/brass/)[brush](/bip39-word/brush/)[bullet](/bip39-word/bullet/)[cabbage](/bip39-word/cabbage/)[buyer](/bip39-word/buyer/)[business](/bip39-word/business/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x0F9

4-Letter Prefix

busy

## About "busy" in BIP39

- It takes all four letters to identify "busy": **"bus"** also begins [bus](/bip39-word/bus/) and [business](/bip39-word/business/).
- Its first letters also spell another BIP39 word, [bus](/bip39-word/bus/). Write "busy" out in full: cut short, it turns into a different valid word.

## Word #250 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) dojnice 

[French](/french/) blinder 

[Italian](/italian/) bosco 

[Japanese](/japanese/) おうじ 

[Korean](/korean/) 기간 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) bandeira 

[Spanish](/spanish/) bobina 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

Read aloud, "busy" /ˈbɪzi/ is one sound away from this word: 

[dizzy /ˈdɪzi/](/bip39-word/dizzy/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "bus":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "B"

[ #137 baby ](/bip39-word/baby/)[ #246 burger ](/bip39-word/burger/)[ #247 burst ](/bip39-word/burst/)[ #248 bus ](/bip39-word/bus/)[ #249 business ](/bip39-word/business/)[ #251 butter ](/bip39-word/butter/)[ #252 buyer ](/bip39-word/buyer/)[ #253 buzz ](/bip39-word/buzz/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [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/)
- [xpub, ypub and zpub: Extended Public Keys Explained](/xpub-ypub-zpub/)

[ Full BIP39 Wordlist ](/)