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title: "BIP39 Word #633: excuse — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/excuse/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #633 01001111000 

# excuse — BIP39 word #633

"**excuse**" is word #633 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [exclude](/bip39-word/exclude/) and [execute](/bip39-word/execute/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `01001111000`, decimal index 632\. 

/ɪksˈkjuːs/  · _noun:_ a reason given to explain or justify a fault or offense 

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

## 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):

[someone](/bip39-word/someone/)[audit](/bip39-word/audit/)[humor](/bip39-word/humor/)[gallery](/bip39-word/gallery/)[either](/bip39-word/either/)[enrich](/bip39-word/enrich/)[escape](/bip39-word/escape/)[evoke](/bip39-word/evoke/)[exhibit](/bip39-word/exhibit/)[exercise](/bip39-word/exercise/)[execute](/bip39-word/execute/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x278

4-Letter Prefix

excu

## About "excuse" in BIP39

- "excuse" has 6 letters, but the first four, **"excu"**, already identify it, because **"exc"** also begins [excess](/bip39-word/excess/), [exchange](/bip39-word/exchange/), [excite](/bip39-word/excite/) and [exclude](/bip39-word/exclude/).
- The same spelling is in the [French BIP39 wordlist](/french/), but as word #764 (index 763), not #633\. A wallet set to French reads "excuse" as **01011111011** instead of **01001111000**, and decodes index 632 as "effrayer".
- **"excu"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins excusa in the [Spanish list](/spanish/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #633 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) koncept 

[French](/french/) effrayer 

[Italian](/italian/) faticare 

[Japanese](/japanese/) こくはく 

[Korean](/korean/) 법원 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) ditador 

[Spanish](/spanish/) escena 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Words sharing the first three letters "exc":

[excess](/bip39-word/excess/)[exchange](/bip39-word/exchange/)[excite](/bip39-word/excite/)[exclude](/bip39-word/exclude/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "E"

[ #629 excess ](/bip39-word/excess/)[ #630 exchange ](/bip39-word/exchange/)[ #631 excite ](/bip39-word/excite/)[ #632 exclude ](/bip39-word/exclude/)[ #634 execute ](/bip39-word/execute/)[ #635 exercise ](/bip39-word/exercise/)[ #636 exhaust ](/bip39-word/exhaust/)[ #637 exhibit ](/bip39-word/exhibit/) 

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

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