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title: "BIP39 Word #843: harsh — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/harsh/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #843 01101001010 

# harsh — BIP39 word #843

"**harsh**" is word #843 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [hard](/bip39-word/hard/) and [harvest](/bip39-word/harvest/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `01101001010`, decimal index 842\. 

/hɑːʃ/  · _adjective:_ unpleasantly rough or severe, or cruel 

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

## 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):

[true](/bip39-word/true/)[citizen](/bip39-word/citizen/)[enable](/bip39-word/enable/)[junk](/bip39-word/junk/)[genuine](/bip39-word/genuine/)[hood](/bip39-word/hood/)[hero](/bip39-word/hero/)[hair](/bip39-word/hair/)[hawk](/bip39-word/hawk/)[harbor](/bip39-word/harbor/)[harvest](/bip39-word/harvest/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x34A

4-Letter Prefix

hars

## About "harsh" in BIP39

- "harsh" has 5 letters, but the first four, **"hars"**, already identify it, because **"har"** also begins [harbor](/bip39-word/harbor/), [hard](/bip39-word/hard/) and [harvest](/bip39-word/harvest/).

## Word #843 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) milenec 

[French](/french/) flocon 

[Italian](/italian/) inglese 

[Japanese](/japanese/) しゃしん 

[Korean](/korean/) 설치 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) fissura 

[Spanish](/spanish/) haber 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Read aloud, "harsh" /hɑːʃ/ is one sound away from these 3 words: 

[half /hɑːf/](/bip39-word/half/)[hard /hɑːd/](/bip39-word/hard/)[heart /hɑːt/](/bip39-word/heart/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "har":

[harbor](/bip39-word/harbor/)[hard](/bip39-word/hard/)[harvest](/bip39-word/harvest/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "H"

[ #839 hand ](/bip39-word/hand/)[ #840 happy ](/bip39-word/happy/)[ #841 harbor ](/bip39-word/harbor/)[ #842 hard ](/bip39-word/hard/)[ #844 harvest ](/bip39-word/harvest/)[ #845 hat ](/bip39-word/hat/)[ #846 have ](/bip39-word/have/)[ #847 hawk ](/bip39-word/hawk/) 

[View all words starting with "H" ](/bip39-words/h/) 

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [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/)
- [What Is a Seed Phrase? How a Recovery Phrase Works](/recovery-seed-phrase-guide/)

[ Full BIP39 Wordlist ](/)