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title: "BIP39 Word #482: destroy — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/destroy/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #482 00111100001 

# destroy — BIP39 word #482

"**destroy**" is word #482 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [despair](/bip39-word/despair/) and [detail](/bip39-word/detail/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00111100001`, decimal index 481\. 

/dɪsˈtrɔɪ/  · _verb:_ to damage something so badly that it no longer exists 

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

## 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):

[rotate](/bip39-word/rotate/)[label](/bip39-word/label/)[bring](/bip39-word/bring/)[club](/bip39-word/club/)[crouch](/bip39-word/crouch/)[deal](/bip39-word/deal/)[dilemma](/bip39-word/dilemma/)[diamond](/bip39-word/diamond/)[device](/bip39-word/device/)[detect](/bip39-word/detect/)[despair](/bip39-word/despair/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x1E1

4-Letter Prefix

dest

## About "destroy" in BIP39

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

## Word #482 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) hygiena 

[French](/french/) cubique 

[Italian](/italian/) dinamico 

[Japanese](/japanese/) くすりゆび 

[Korean](/korean/) 명칭 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) colidir 

[Spanish](/spanish/) cuello 

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

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

## 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/)[despair](/bip39-word/despair/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "D"

[ #478 desert ](/bip39-word/desert/)[ #479 design ](/bip39-word/design/)[ #480 desk ](/bip39-word/desk/)[ #481 despair ](/bip39-word/despair/)[ #483 detail ](/bip39-word/detail/)[ #484 detect ](/bip39-word/detect/)[ #485 develop ](/bip39-word/develop/)[ #486 device ](/bip39-word/device/) 

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

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