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title: "BIP39 Word #1230: often — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/often/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1230 10011001101 

# often — BIP39 word #1230

"**often**" is word #1230 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [office](/bip39-word/office/) and [oil](/bip39-word/oil/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `10011001101`, decimal index 1229\. 

/ˈɒfᵊn/  · _adverb:_ many times, or frequently 

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

## 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):

[boost](/bip39-word/boost/)[super](/bip39-word/super/)[rifle](/bip39-word/rifle/)[meadow](/bip39-word/meadow/)[museum](/bip39-word/museum/)[oval](/bip39-word/oval/)[option](/bip39-word/option/)[obvious](/bip39-word/obvious/)[odor](/bip39-word/odor/)[okay](/bip39-word/okay/)[office](/bip39-word/office/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x4CD

4-Letter Prefix

ofte

## About "often" in BIP39

- "often" has 5 letters, but the first three, **"oft"**, already identify it, because **"of"** also begins [off](/bip39-word/off/), [offer](/bip39-word/offer/) and [office](/bip39-word/office/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.

## Word #1230 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) plivat 

[French](/french/) menhir 

[Italian](/italian/) pari 

[Japanese](/japanese/) つたえる 

[Korean](/korean/) 왕비 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) marmita 

[Spanish](/spanish/) nervio 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Read aloud, "often" /ˈɒfᵊn/ is one sound away from these 2 words: 

[offer /ˈɒfə/](/bip39-word/offer/)[orphan /ˈɔːfᵊn/](/bip39-word/orphan/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "O"

[ #1226 odor ](/bip39-word/odor/)[ #1227 off ](/bip39-word/off/)[ #1228 offer ](/bip39-word/offer/)[ #1229 office ](/bip39-word/office/)[ #1231 oil ](/bip39-word/oil/)[ #1232 okay ](/bip39-word/okay/)[ #1233 old ](/bip39-word/old/)[ #1234 olive ](/bip39-word/olive/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [What Is BIP39? The Standard Behind Seed Phrases](/bip39-the-foundation-of-crypto-wallet-security/)
- [Seed Phrase Examples: 12, 18 and 24 BIP39 Mnemonic Phrases](/mnemonic-words-examples-for-crypto-security-bip39/)
- [How to Protect Your Crypto Wallet from Phishing](/protect-crypto-wallet-from-phishing/)

[ Full BIP39 Wordlist ](/)