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title: "BIP39 Word #1188: nerve — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/nerve/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1188 10010100011 

# nerve — BIP39 word #1188

"**nerve**" is word #1188 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [nephew](/bip39-word/nephew/) and [nest](/bip39-word/nest/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `10010100011`, decimal index 1187\. 

/nɜːv/  · _noun:_ a fiber carrying signals between the brain and body, or courage 

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

## 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):

[behave](/bip39-word/behave/)[stamp](/bip39-word/stamp/)[refuse](/bip39-word/refuse/)[love](/bip39-word/love/)[organ](/bip39-word/organ/)[motor](/bip39-word/motor/)[nose](/bip39-word/nose/)[nice](/bip39-word/nice/)[neutral](/bip39-word/neutral/)[neither](/bip39-word/neither/)[nephew](/bip39-word/nephew/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x4A3

4-Letter Prefix

nerv

## About "nerve" in BIP39

- "nerve" has 5 letters, but the first three, **"ner"**, already identify it, because **"ne"** also begins 14 other words, among them [near](/bip39-word/near/), [neck](/bip39-word/neck/), [need](/bip39-word/need/) and [negative](/bip39-word/negative/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
- **"nerv"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins nerveux in the [French list](/french/), nervio in the [Spanish list](/spanish/), nervo in the [Italian list](/italian/), nervoso in the [Portuguese list](/portuguese/) and nerv in the [Czech list](/czech/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #1188 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) peklo 

[French](/french/) majorer 

[Italian](/italian/) osmosi 

[Japanese](/japanese/) ちたい 

[Korean](/korean/) 예상 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) louvar 

[Spanish](/spanish/) mozo 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Read aloud, "nerve" /nɜːv/ is one sound away from these 2 words: 

[curve /kɜːv/](/bip39-word/curve/)[nurse /nɜːs/](/bip39-word/nurse/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "N"

[ #1184 negative ](/bip39-word/negative/)[ #1185 neglect ](/bip39-word/neglect/)[ #1186 neither ](/bip39-word/neither/)[ #1187 nephew ](/bip39-word/nephew/)[ #1189 nest ](/bip39-word/nest/)[ #1190 net ](/bip39-word/net/)[ #1191 network ](/bip39-word/network/)[ #1192 neutral ](/bip39-word/neutral/) 

[View all words starting with "N" ](/bip39-words/n/) 

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [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/)
- [What Is a Bitcoin Address and How Does It Work?](/what-is-a-bitcoin-address/)

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