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title: "BIP39 Word #809: govern — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/govern/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #809 01100101000 

# govern — BIP39 word #809

"**govern**" is word #809 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [gossip](/bip39-word/gossip/) and [gown](/bip39-word/gown/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `01100101000`, decimal index 808\. 

/ˈgʌvən/  · _verb:_ to officially control and manage a country or organization 

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

## 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):

[topic](/bip39-word/topic/)[celery](/bip39-word/celery/)[eagle](/bip39-word/eagle/)[insect](/bip39-word/insect/)[home](/bip39-word/home/)[genre](/bip39-word/genre/)[grow](/bip39-word/grow/)[goat](/bip39-word/goat/)[grain](/bip39-word/grain/)[grab](/bip39-word/grab/)[gown](/bip39-word/gown/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x328

4-Letter Prefix

gove

## About "govern" in BIP39

- "govern" has 6 letters, but the first three, **"gov"**, already identify it, because **"go"** also begins 9 other words, among them [goat](/bip39-word/goat/), [goddess](/bip39-word/goddess/), [gold](/bip39-word/gold/) and [good](/bip39-word/good/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
- **"gove"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins governo in the [Italian list](/italian/) and governar in the [Portuguese list](/portuguese/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #809 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) malba 

[French](/french/) féodal 

[Italian](/italian/) illogico 

[Japanese](/japanese/) しなもの 

[Korean](/korean/) 생선 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) farinha 

[Spanish](/spanish/) goma 

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

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "G"

[ #805 goose ](/bip39-word/goose/)[ #806 gorilla ](/bip39-word/gorilla/)[ #807 gospel ](/bip39-word/gospel/)[ #808 gossip ](/bip39-word/gossip/)[ #810 gown ](/bip39-word/gown/)[ #811 grab ](/bip39-word/grab/)[ #812 grace ](/bip39-word/grace/)[ #813 grain ](/bip39-word/grain/) 

[View all words starting with "G" ](/bip39-words/g/) 

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