--- title: "BIP39 Word #425: crush — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word" url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/crush/" language: "en" updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00" --- Word #425 00110101000 # crush — BIP39 word #425 "**crush**" is word #425 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [crunch](/bip39-word/crunch/) and [cry](/bip39-word/cry/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00110101000`, decimal index 424\. /krʌʃ/ · _verb:_ to press something so hard that it breaks or loses shape [Russian](/ru/ "The BIP39 wordlist with Russian translations"): раздавить ## 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): [relax](/bip39-word/relax/)[insect](/bip39-word/insect/)[bench](/bip39-word/bench/)[celery](/bip39-word/celery/)[dial](/bip39-word/dial/)[country](/bip39-word/country/)[damage](/bip39-word/damage/)[cross](/bip39-word/cross/)[culture](/bip39-word/culture/)[crystal](/bip39-word/crystal/)[cry](/bip39-word/cry/) Position Hex Index 0x1A8 4-Letter Prefix crus ## About "crush" in BIP39 - "crush" has 5 letters, but the first four, **"crus"**, already identify it, because **"cru"** also begins [crucial](/bip39-word/crucial/), [cruel](/bip39-word/cruel/), [cruise](/bip39-word/cruise/), [crumble](/bip39-word/crumble/) and [crunch](/bip39-word/crunch/). - **"crus"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins crusca in the [Italian list](/italian/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses. - "crush" appears in one of the 24 official English [test vectors](https://github.com/trezor/python-mnemonic/blob/master/vectors.json) of BIP39: vector #24 (word 12 of 24). 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 #24 [void](/bip39-word/void/) [come](/bip39-word/come/) [effort](/bip39-word/effort/) [suffer](/bip39-word/suffer/) [camp](/bip39-word/camp/) [survey](/bip39-word/survey/) [warrior](/bip39-word/warrior/) [heavy](/bip39-word/heavy/) [shoot](/bip39-word/shoot/) [primary](/bip39-word/primary/) [clutch](/bip39-word/clutch/) crush [open](/bip39-word/open/) [amazing](/bip39-word/amazing/) [screen](/bip39-word/screen/) [patrol](/bip39-word/patrol/) [group](/bip39-word/group/) [space](/bip39-word/space/) [point](/bip39-word/point/) [ten](/bip39-word/ten/) [exist](/bip39-word/exist/) [slush](/bip39-word/slush/) [involve](/bip39-word/involve/) [unfold](/bip39-word/unfold/) ## Word #425 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists [Czech](/czech/) hoch [French](/french/) cohésion [Italian](/italian/) cruciale [Japanese](/japanese/) きぬごし [Korean](/korean/) 딸아이 [Portuguese](/portuguese/) certeiro [Spanish](/spanish/) codo [Traditional Chinese](/chinese-traditional/) 團 [Simplified Chinese](/chinese-simplified/) 团 ## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery 2 BIP39 words differ from "crush" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand: [brush](/bip39-word/brush/)[crash](/bip39-word/crash/) Words sharing the first three letters "cru": [crucial](/bip39-word/crucial/)[cruel](/bip39-word/cruel/)[cruise](/bip39-word/cruise/)[crumble](/bip39-word/crumble/)[crunch](/bip39-word/crunch/) ## More BIP39 Words Starting with "C" [ #421 cruel ](/bip39-word/cruel/)[ #422 cruise ](/bip39-word/cruise/)[ #423 crumble ](/bip39-word/crumble/)[ #424 crunch ](/bip39-word/crunch/)[ #426 cry ](/bip39-word/cry/)[ #427 crystal ](/bip39-word/crystal/)[ #428 cube ](/bip39-word/cube/)[ #429 culture ](/bip39-word/culture/) [View all words starting with "C" ](/bip39-words/c/) ## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides - [BIP38 Encrypted Private Keys: 6P Format and How to Decrypt](/bip38/) - [BIP39 Passphrase: How the 25th Word Creates a Hidden Wallet](/bip39-passphrase/) - [Is My Seed Phrase Compromised? Signs and What to Do Next](/bip39-seed-phrase-compromise/) [ Full BIP39 Wordlist ](/)