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title: "BIP39 Word #549: duty — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/duty/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #549 01000100100 

# duty — BIP39 word #549

"**duty**" is word #549 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [dutch](/bip39-word/dutch/) and [dwarf](/bip39-word/dwarf/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `01000100100`, decimal index 548\. 

/ˈdjuːti/  · _noun:_ a moral or legal obligation, or a tax on goods 

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

## Binary Representation

Three 1-bits and eight 0-bits; 165 of the 2048 indexes have exactly three 1-bits.

One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):

[setup](/bip39-word/setup/)[afraid](/bip39-word/afraid/)[goose](/bip39-word/goose/)[fee](/bip39-word/fee/)[erode](/bip39-word/erode/)[dog](/bip39-word/dog/)[educate](/bip39-word/educate/)[easily](/bip39-word/easily/)[dune](/bip39-word/dune/)[dynamic](/bip39-word/dynamic/)[dwarf](/bip39-word/dwarf/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x224

4-Letter Prefix

duty

## About "duty" in BIP39

- It takes all four letters to identify "duty": **"dut"** also begins [dutch](/bip39-word/dutch/).

## Word #549 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) kalamita 

[French](/french/) détacher 

[Italian](/italian/) elmo 

[Japanese](/japanese/) けっせき 

[Korean](/korean/) 민족 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) cupido 

[Spanish](/spanish/) dinero 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Read aloud, "duty" /ˈdjuːti/ is one sound away from this word: 

[beauty /ˈbjuːti/](/bip39-word/beauty/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "dut":

[dutch](/bip39-word/dutch/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "D"

[ #440 dad ](/bip39-word/dad/)[ #441 damage ](/bip39-word/damage/)[ #545 dune ](/bip39-word/dune/)[ #546 during ](/bip39-word/during/)[ #547 dust ](/bip39-word/dust/)[ #548 dutch ](/bip39-word/dutch/)[ #550 dwarf ](/bip39-word/dwarf/)[ #551 dynamic ](/bip39-word/dynamic/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [Why You Should Never Create Your Own Seed Phrase](/why-you-should-never-create-your-own-seed-phrase/)
- [12 vs 24 Word Seed Phrase: Which Is More Secure?](/12-vs-24-word-seed-phrase/)
- [BIP 157 Client-Side Block Filtering: Compact Filters Explained](/bip-157-client-side-block-filtering/)

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