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title: "BIP39 Word #377: congress — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/congress/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #377 00101111000 

# congress — BIP39 word #377

"**congress**" is word #377 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [confirm](/bip39-word/confirm/) and [connect](/bip39-word/connect/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00101111000`, decimal index 376\. 

/ˈkɒŋɡrɛs/  · _noun:_ a formal meeting of delegates, or a national lawmaking body 

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

## 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):

[pyramid](/bip39-word/pyramid/)[humor](/bip39-word/humor/)[audit](/bip39-word/audit/)[disease](/bip39-word/disease/)[check](/bip39-word/check/)[climb](/bip39-word/climb/)[code](/bip39-word/code/)[come](/bip39-word/come/)[convince](/bip39-word/convince/)[consider](/bip39-word/consider/)[connect](/bip39-word/connect/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x178

4-Letter Prefix

cong

## About "congress" in BIP39

- "congress" has 8 letters, but the first four, **"cong"**, already identify it, because **"con"** also begins 7 other words, among them [concert](/bip39-word/concert/), [conduct](/bip39-word/conduct/), [confirm](/bip39-word/confirm/) and [connect](/bip39-word/connect/).
- **"cong"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins congeler in the [French list](/french/), conga in the [Spanish list](/spanish/), congelare in the [Italian list](/italian/) and congelar in the [Portuguese list](/portuguese/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
- "congress" appears in one of the 24 official English [test vectors](https://github.com/trezor/python-mnemonic/blob/master/vectors.json) of BIP39: vector #23 (words 9 and 17 of 18). Every official vector passes the [checksum checker](/bip39-checksum-checker/), and [How BIP39 works](/how-bip39-works/) shows how the entropy turns into such words.

Official test vector #23

[scissors](/bip39-word/scissors/) [invite](/bip39-word/invite/) [lock](/bip39-word/lock/) [maple](/bip39-word/maple/) [supreme](/bip39-word/supreme/) [raw](/bip39-word/raw/) [rapid](/bip39-word/rapid/) [void](/bip39-word/void/) congress [muscle](/bip39-word/muscle/) [digital](/bip39-word/digital/) [elegant](/bip39-word/elegant/) [little](/bip39-word/little/) [brisk](/bip39-word/brisk/) [hair](/bip39-word/hair/) [mango](/bip39-word/mango/) congress [clump](/bip39-word/clump/) 

## Word #377 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) graf 

[French](/french/) chenille 

[Italian](/italian/) colza 

[Japanese](/japanese/) きあつ 

[Korean](/korean/) 당장 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) cancelar 

[Spanish](/spanish/) cerrar 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Words sharing the first three letters "con":

[concert](/bip39-word/concert/)[conduct](/bip39-word/conduct/)[confirm](/bip39-word/confirm/)[connect](/bip39-word/connect/)[consider](/bip39-word/consider/)[control](/bip39-word/control/)[convince](/bip39-word/convince/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "C"

[ #373 company ](/bip39-word/company/)[ #374 concert ](/bip39-word/concert/)[ #375 conduct ](/bip39-word/conduct/)[ #376 confirm ](/bip39-word/confirm/)[ #378 connect ](/bip39-word/connect/)[ #379 consider ](/bip39-word/consider/)[ #380 control ](/bip39-word/control/)[ #381 convince ](/bip39-word/convince/) 

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

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