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title: "BIP39 Word #290: category — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/category/"
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updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #290 00100100001 

# category — BIP39 word #290

"**category**" is word #290 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [catch](/bip39-word/catch/) and [cattle](/bip39-word/cattle/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00100100001`, decimal index 289\. 

/ˈkætɪgəri/  · _noun:_ a group of people or things with shared features 

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

## Binary Representation

Three 1-bits and eight 0-bits; 165 of the 2048 indexes have exactly three 1-bits.

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

[picnic](/bip39-word/picnic/)[goddess](/bip39-word/goddess/)[aerobic](/bip39-word/aerobic/)[crouch](/bip39-word/crouch/)[club](/bip39-word/club/)[cage](/bip39-word/cage/)[change](/bip39-word/change/)[cement](/bip39-word/cement/)[caution](/bip39-word/caution/)[caught](/bip39-word/caught/)[catch](/bip39-word/catch/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x121

4-Letter Prefix

cate

## About "category" in BIP39

- "category" has 8 letters, but the first four, **"cate"**, already identify it, because **"cat"** also begins [cat](/bip39-word/cat/), [catalog](/bip39-word/catalog/), [catch](/bip39-word/catch/) and [cattle](/bip39-word/cattle/).
- Its first letters also spell another BIP39 word, [cat](/bip39-word/cat/). Write "category" out in full: cut short, it turns into a different valid word.
- **"cate"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins catena in the [Italian list](/italian/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #290 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) draze 

[French](/french/) brousse 

[Italian](/italian/) camerata 

[Japanese](/japanese/) おっと 

[Korean](/korean/) 나물 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) bilhete 

[Spanish](/spanish/) bufanda 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Words sharing the first three letters "cat":

[cat](/bip39-word/cat/)[catalog](/bip39-word/catalog/)[catch](/bip39-word/catch/)[cattle](/bip39-word/cattle/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "C"

[ #286 casual ](/bip39-word/casual/)[ #287 cat ](/bip39-word/cat/)[ #288 catalog ](/bip39-word/catalog/)[ #289 catch ](/bip39-word/catch/)[ #291 cattle ](/bip39-word/cattle/)[ #292 caught ](/bip39-word/caught/)[ #293 cause ](/bip39-word/cause/)[ #294 caution ](/bip39-word/caution/) 

[View all words starting with "C" ](/bip39-words/c/) 

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [What Is BIP39? The Standard Behind Seed Phrases](/bip39-the-foundation-of-crypto-wallet-security/)
- [Seed Phrase Examples: 12, 18 and 24 BIP39 Mnemonic Phrases](/mnemonic-words-examples-for-crypto-security-bip39/)
- [How to Protect Your Crypto Wallet from Phishing](/protect-crypto-wallet-from-phishing/)

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