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title: "BIP39 Word #460: defense — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/defense/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #460 00111001011 

# defense — BIP39 word #460

"**defense**" is word #460 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [deer](/bip39-word/deer/) and [define](/bip39-word/define/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00111001011`, decimal index 459\. 

/dɪˈfɛns/  · _noun:_ the act of protecting someone or something against attack 

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

## 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):

[ride](/bip39-word/ride/)[just](/bip39-word/just/)[bonus](/bip39-word/bonus/)[city](/bip39-word/city/)[cousin](/bip39-word/cousin/)[dice](/bip39-word/dice/)[derive](/bip39-word/derive/)[debris](/bip39-word/debris/)[delay](/bip39-word/delay/)[decrease](/bip39-word/decrease/)[deer](/bip39-word/deer/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x1CB

4-Letter Prefix

defe

## About "defense" in BIP39

- "defense" has 7 letters, but the first four, **"defe"**, already identify it, because **"def"** also begins [define](/bip39-word/define/) and [defy](/bip39-word/defy/).
- **"defe"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins defensa in the [Spanish list](/spanish/) and defesa in the [Portuguese list](/portuguese/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #460 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) hrdina 

[French](/french/) couteau 

[Italian](/italian/) delta 

[Japanese](/japanese/) ぐあい 

[Korean](/korean/) 매년 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) citar 

[Spanish](/spanish/) costa 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Words sharing the first three letters "def":

[define](/bip39-word/define/)[defy](/bip39-word/defy/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "D"

[ #456 decline ](/bip39-word/decline/)[ #457 decorate ](/bip39-word/decorate/)[ #458 decrease ](/bip39-word/decrease/)[ #459 deer ](/bip39-word/deer/)[ #461 define ](/bip39-word/define/)[ #462 defy ](/bip39-word/defy/)[ #463 degree ](/bip39-word/degree/)[ #464 delay ](/bip39-word/delay/) 

[View all words starting with "D" ](/bip39-words/d/) 

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