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title: "BIP39 Word #292: caught — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/caught/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #292 00100100011 

# caught — BIP39 word #292

"**caught**" is word #292 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [cattle](/bip39-word/cattle/) and [cause](/bip39-word/cause/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00100100011`, decimal index 291\. 

/kɔːt/  · _verb:_ seized or captured, the past form of catch 

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

## Binary Representation

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

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

[piece](/bip39-word/piece/)[good](/bip39-word/good/)[afford](/bip39-word/afford/)[crucial](/bip39-word/crucial/)[cluster](/bip39-word/cluster/)[call](/bip39-word/call/)[chapter](/bip39-word/chapter/)[century](/bip39-word/century/)[ceiling](/bip39-word/ceiling/)[category](/bip39-word/category/)[cattle](/bip39-word/cattle/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x123

4-Letter Prefix

caug

## About "caught" in BIP39

- "caught" has 6 letters, but the first four, **"caug"**, already identify it, because **"cau"** also begins [cause](/bip39-word/cause/) and [caution](/bip39-word/caution/).

## Word #292 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) drobnost 

[French](/french/) brume 

[Italian](/italian/) cammino 

[Japanese](/japanese/) おでかけ 

[Korean](/korean/) 나흘 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) bimotor 

[Spanish](/spanish/) búho 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Read aloud, "caught" /kɔːt/ is one sound away from these 12 words: 

[call /kɔːl/](/bip39-word/call/)[cart /kɑːt/](/bip39-word/cart/)[cat /kæt/](/bip39-word/cat/)[cause /kɔːz/](/bip39-word/cause/)[core /kɔː/](/bip39-word/core/)[corn /kɔːn/](/bip39-word/corn/)[course /kɔːs/](/bip39-word/course/)[kit /kɪt/](/bip39-word/kit/)[kite /kaɪt/](/bip39-word/kite/)[short /ʃɔːt/](/bip39-word/short/)[sort /sɔːt/](/bip39-word/sort/)[thought /θɔːt/](/bip39-word/thought/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "cau":

[cause](/bip39-word/cause/)[caution](/bip39-word/caution/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "C"

[ #288 catalog ](/bip39-word/catalog/)[ #289 catch ](/bip39-word/catch/)[ #290 category ](/bip39-word/category/)[ #291 cattle ](/bip39-word/cattle/)[ #293 cause ](/bip39-word/cause/)[ #294 caution ](/bip39-word/caution/)[ #295 cave ](/bip39-word/cave/)[ #296 ceiling ](/bip39-word/ceiling/) 

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

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