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title: "BIP39 Word #966: judge — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/judge/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #966 01111000101 

# judge — BIP39 word #966

"**judge**" is word #966 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [joy](/bip39-word/joy/) and [juice](/bip39-word/juice/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `01111000101`, decimal index 965\. 

/ˈʤʌʤ/  · _noun:_ a public official who decides cases in a court of law 

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

## 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):

[weather](/bip39-word/weather/)[december](/bip39-word/december/)[flavor](/bip39-word/flavor/)[hamster](/bip39-word/hamster/)[idle](/bip39-word/idle/)[lake](/bip39-word/lake/)[kingdom](/bip39-word/kingdom/)[keen](/bip39-word/keen/)[join](/bip39-word/join/)[jump](/bip39-word/jump/)[joy](/bip39-word/joy/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x3C5

4-Letter Prefix

judg

## About "judge" in BIP39

- "judge" has 5 letters, but the first three, **"jud"**, already identify it, because **"ju"** also begins [juice](/bip39-word/juice/), [jump](/bip39-word/jump/), [jungle](/bip39-word/jungle/), [junior](/bip39-word/junior/), [junk](/bip39-word/junk/) and [just](/bip39-word/just/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.

## Word #966 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) nerv 

[French](/french/) haricot 

[Italian](/italian/) mandorla 

[Japanese](/japanese/) せんえい 

[Korean](/korean/) 시멘트 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) grotesco 

[Spanish](/spanish/) juzgar 

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

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "J"

[ #962 join ](/bip39-word/join/)[ #963 joke ](/bip39-word/joke/)[ #964 journey ](/bip39-word/journey/)[ #965 joy ](/bip39-word/joy/)[ #967 juice ](/bip39-word/juice/)[ #968 jump ](/bip39-word/jump/)[ #969 jungle ](/bip39-word/jungle/)[ #970 junior ](/bip39-word/junior/) 

[View all words starting with "J" ](/bip39-words/j/) 

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