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title: "BIP39 Word #827: guard — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/guard/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #827 01100111010 

# guard — BIP39 word #827

"**guard**" is word #827 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [grunt](/bip39-word/grunt/) and [guess](/bip39-word/guess/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `01100111010`, decimal index 826\. 

/gɑːd/  · _noun:_ a person who protects a place or watches over prisoners 

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

## Binary Representation

Six 1-bits and five 0-bits; 462 of the 2048 indexes have exactly six 1-bits.

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

[trap](/bip39-word/trap/)[chef](/bip39-word/chef/)[elder](/bip39-word/elder/)[jar](/bip39-word/jar/)[hungry](/bip39-word/hungry/)[globe](/bip39-word/globe/)[grab](/bip39-word/grab/)[green](/bip39-word/green/)[guitar](/bip39-word/guitar/)[grow](/bip39-word/grow/)[guess](/bip39-word/guess/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x33A

4-Letter Prefix

guar

## About "guard" in BIP39

- "guard" has 5 letters, but the first three, **"gua"**, already identify it, because **"gu"** also begins [guess](/bip39-word/guess/), [guide](/bip39-word/guide/), [guilt](/bip39-word/guilt/), [guitar](/bip39-word/guitar/) and [gun](/bip39-word/gun/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
- **"guar"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins guardia in the [Spanish list](/spanish/), guardare in the [Italian list](/italian/) and guarani in the [Portuguese list](/portuguese/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
- "guard" appears in one of the 24 official English [test vectors](https://github.com/trezor/python-mnemonic/blob/master/vectors.json) of BIP39: vector #21 (word 10 of 24). Every official vector passes the [checksum checker](/bip39-checksum-checker/), and [How BIP39 works](/how-bip39-works/) shows how the entropy turns into such words.

Official test vector #21

[all](/bip39-word/all/) [hour](/bip39-word/hour/) [make](/bip39-word/make/) [first](/bip39-word/first/) [leader](/bip39-word/leader/) [extend](/bip39-word/extend/) [hole](/bip39-word/hole/) [alien](/bip39-word/alien/) [behind](/bip39-word/behind/) guard [gospel](/bip39-word/gospel/) [lava](/bip39-word/lava/) [path](/bip39-word/path/) [output](/bip39-word/output/) [census](/bip39-word/census/) [museum](/bip39-word/museum/) [junior](/bip39-word/junior/) [mass](/bip39-word/mass/) [reopen](/bip39-word/reopen/) [famous](/bip39-word/famous/) [sing](/bip39-word/sing/) [advance](/bip39-word/advance/) [salt](/bip39-word/salt/) [reform](/bip39-word/reform/) 

## Word #827 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) mdloba 

[French](/french/) filou 

[Italian](/italian/) incendio 

[Japanese](/japanese/) しまる 

[Korean](/korean/) 선물 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) ferrugem 

[Spanish](/spanish/) grosor 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Read aloud, "guard" /gɑːd/ is one sound away from these 6 words: 

[card /kɑːd/](/bip39-word/card/)[garden /ˈgɑːdn/](/bip39-word/garden/)[good /gʊd/](/bip39-word/good/)[guide /gaɪd/](/bip39-word/guide/)[hard /hɑːd/](/bip39-word/hard/)[yard /jɑːd/](/bip39-word/yard/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "G"

[ #823 grocery ](/bip39-word/grocery/)[ #824 group ](/bip39-word/group/)[ #825 grow ](/bip39-word/grow/)[ #826 grunt ](/bip39-word/grunt/)[ #828 guess ](/bip39-word/guess/)[ #829 guide ](/bip39-word/guide/)[ #830 guilt ](/bip39-word/guilt/)[ #831 guitar ](/bip39-word/guitar/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [Seed Phrase Formats by Network: BIP39 and the Exceptions](/seed-phrase-formats-by-network/)
- [BIP39 vs BIP32 vs BIP44: How the Seed Standards Fit Together](/crypto-seed-standards-bip39-vs-bip32-vs-bip44/)
- [How to Memorize a Seed Phrase: Color, Story and Palace Methods](/seed-phrase-memory/)

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