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title: "BIP39 Word #1218: oblige — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/oblige/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1218 10011000001 

# oblige — BIP39 word #1218

"**oblige**" is word #1218 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [object](/bip39-word/object/) and [obscure](/bip39-word/obscure/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `10011000001`, decimal index 1217\. 

/əˈblaɪʤ/  · _verb:_ to force someone to do something by law or duty, or to help 

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

## 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):

[blouse](/bip39-word/blouse/)[subway](/bip39-word/subway/)[return](/bip39-word/return/)[market](/bip39-word/market/)[mother](/bip39-word/mother/)[order](/bip39-word/order/)[olive](/bip39-word/olive/)[odor](/bip39-word/odor/)[obvious](/bip39-word/obvious/)[observe](/bip39-word/observe/)[object](/bip39-word/object/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x4C1

4-Letter Prefix

obli

## About "oblige" in BIP39

- "oblige" has 6 letters, but the first three, **"obl"**, already identify it, because **"ob"** also begins [obey](/bip39-word/obey/), [object](/bip39-word/object/), [obscure](/bip39-word/obscure/), [observe](/bip39-word/observe/), [obtain](/bip39-word/obtain/) and [obvious](/bip39-word/obvious/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
- **"obli"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins obliger in the [French list](/french/), oblio in the [Italian list](/italian/) and obliba in the [Czech list](/czech/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #1218 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) plamen 

[French](/french/) méconnu 

[Italian](/italian/) pallido 

[Japanese](/japanese/) ついたち 

[Korean](/korean/) 온라인 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) manivela 

[Spanish](/spanish/) nativo 

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

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "O"

[ #1215 oak ](/bip39-word/oak/)[ #1216 obey ](/bip39-word/obey/)[ #1217 object ](/bip39-word/object/)[ #1219 obscure ](/bip39-word/obscure/)[ #1220 observe ](/bip39-word/observe/)[ #1221 obtain ](/bip39-word/obtain/)[ #1222 obvious ](/bip39-word/obvious/)[ #1269 ozone ](/bip39-word/ozone/) 

[View all words starting with "O" ](/bip39-words/o/) 

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- [Seed Phrase vs Private Key: What's the Difference?](/seed-phrase-vs-private-key/)
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