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title: "BIP39 Word #588: enact — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/enact/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #588 01001001011 

# enact — BIP39 word #588

"**enact**" is word #588 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [enable](/bip39-word/enable/) and [end](/bip39-word/end/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `01001001011`, decimal index 587\. 

/ɪˈnækt/  · _verb:_ to make a proposal into law, or to act out a role 

[Russian](/ru/ "The BIP39 wordlist with Russian translations"): вводить в действие 

## 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):

[siren](/bip39-word/siren/)[annual](/bip39-word/annual/)[harvest](/bip39-word/harvest/)[floor](/bip39-word/floor/)[door](/bip39-word/door/)[estate](/bip39-word/estate/)[enter](/bip39-word/enter/)[embody](/bip39-word/embody/)[enemy](/bip39-word/enemy/)[empty](/bip39-word/empty/)[enable](/bip39-word/enable/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x24B

4-Letter Prefix

enac

## About "enact" in BIP39

- "enact" has 5 letters, but the first four, **"enac"**, already identify it, because **"ena"** also begins [enable](/bip39-word/enable/).

## Word #588 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) klam 

[French](/french/) dortoir 

[Italian](/italian/) esempio 

[Japanese](/japanese/) けんてい 

[Korean](/korean/) 발전 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) depois 

[Spanish](/spanish/) editor 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

 One BIP39 word differs from "enact" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand: 

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

Read aloud, "enact" /ɪˈnækt/ is one sound away from this word: 

[intact /ɪnˈtækt/](/bip39-word/intact/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "ena":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "E"

[ #584 employ ](/bip39-word/employ/)[ #585 empower ](/bip39-word/empower/)[ #586 empty ](/bip39-word/empty/)[ #587 enable ](/bip39-word/enable/)[ #589 end ](/bip39-word/end/)[ #590 endless ](/bip39-word/endless/)[ #591 endorse ](/bip39-word/endorse/)[ #592 enemy ](/bip39-word/enemy/) 

[View all words starting with "E" ](/bip39-words/e/) 

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