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title: "BIP39 Word #481: despair — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/despair/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #481 00111100000 

# despair — BIP39 word #481

"**despair**" is word #481 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [desk](/bip39-word/desk/) and [destroy](/bip39-word/destroy/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00111100000`, decimal index 480\. 

/dɪˈspeə/  · _noun:_ the complete loss of hope 

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

## 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):

[rose](/bip39-word/rose/)[lab](/bip39-word/lab/)[bright](/bip39-word/bright/)[clown](/bip39-word/clown/)[cross](/bip39-word/cross/)[day](/bip39-word/day/)[dignity](/bip39-word/dignity/)[dial](/bip39-word/dial/)[develop](/bip39-word/develop/)[detail](/bip39-word/detail/)[destroy](/bip39-word/destroy/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x1E0

4-Letter Prefix

desp

## About "despair" in BIP39

- "despair" has 7 letters, but the first four, **"desp"**, already identify it, because **"des"** also begins [describe](/bip39-word/describe/), [desert](/bip39-word/desert/), [design](/bip39-word/design/), [desk](/bip39-word/desk/) and [destroy](/bip39-word/destroy/).
- **"desp"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins despesa in the [Portuguese list](/portuguese/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #481 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) hydrant 

[French](/french/) crypter 

[Italian](/italian/) diluvio 

[Japanese](/japanese/) くすのき 

[Korean](/korean/) 명절 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) colher 

[Spanish](/spanish/) cuchara 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Words sharing the first three letters "des":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "D"

[ #477 describe ](/bip39-word/describe/)[ #478 desert ](/bip39-word/desert/)[ #479 design ](/bip39-word/design/)[ #480 desk ](/bip39-word/desk/)[ #482 destroy ](/bip39-word/destroy/)[ #483 detail ](/bip39-word/detail/)[ #484 detect ](/bip39-word/detect/)[ #485 develop ](/bip39-word/develop/) 

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

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