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title: "BIP39 Word #477: describe — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/describe/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #477 00111011100 

# describe — BIP39 word #477

"**describe**" is word #477 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [derive](/bip39-word/derive/) and [desert](/bip39-word/desert/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00111011100`, decimal index 476\. 

/dɪsˈkraɪb/  · _verb:_ to say or write what someone or something is like 

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

## 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):

[romance](/bip39-word/romance/)[knee](/bip39-word/knee/)[breeze](/bip39-word/breeze/)[clog](/bip39-word/clog/)[crime](/bip39-word/crime/)[display](/bip39-word/display/)[define](/bip39-word/define/)[dentist](/bip39-word/dentist/)[deposit](/bip39-word/deposit/)[design](/bip39-word/design/)[desert](/bip39-word/desert/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x1DC

4-Letter Prefix

desc

## About "describe" in BIP39

- "describe" has 8 letters, but the first four, **"desc"**, already identify it, because **"des"** also begins [desert](/bip39-word/desert/), [design](/bip39-word/design/), [desk](/bip39-word/desk/), [despair](/bip39-word/despair/) and [destroy](/bip39-word/destroy/).
- **"desc"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins descente in the [French list](/french/), descritto in the [Italian list](/italian/) and descanso in the [Portuguese list](/portuguese/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #477 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) husita 

[French](/french/) croquer 

[Italian](/italian/) difeso 

[Japanese](/japanese/) くさばな 

[Korean](/korean/) 명단 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) coifa 

[Spanish](/spanish/) cuarto 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Words sharing the first three letters "des":

[desert](/bip39-word/desert/)[design](/bip39-word/design/)[desk](/bip39-word/desk/)[despair](/bip39-word/despair/)[destroy](/bip39-word/destroy/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "D"

[ #473 deposit ](/bip39-word/deposit/)[ #474 depth ](/bip39-word/depth/)[ #475 deputy ](/bip39-word/deputy/)[ #476 derive ](/bip39-word/derive/)[ #478 desert ](/bip39-word/desert/)[ #479 design ](/bip39-word/design/)[ #480 desk ](/bip39-word/desk/)[ #481 despair ](/bip39-word/despair/) 

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

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