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title: "BIP39 Word #1292: pause — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/pause/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1292 10100001011 

# pause — BIP39 word #1292

"**pause**" is word #1292 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [pattern](/bip39-word/pattern/) and [pave](/bip39-word/pave/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `10100001011`, decimal index 1291\. 

/pɔːz/  · _verb:_ to stop doing something for a short time 

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

## 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):

[cannon](/bip39-word/cannon/)[thumb](/bip39-word/thumb/)[lift](/bip39-word/lift/)[ramp](/bip39-word/ramp/)[practice](/bip39-word/practice/)[pistol](/bip39-word/pistol/)[pet](/bip39-word/pet/)[parrot](/bip39-word/parrot/)[peanut](/bip39-word/peanut/)[patrol](/bip39-word/patrol/)[pattern](/bip39-word/pattern/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x50B

4-Letter Prefix

paus

## About "pause" in BIP39

- "pause" has 5 letters, but the first three, **"pau"**, already identify it, because **"pa"** also begins 24 other words, among them [pact](/bip39-word/pact/), [paddle](/bip39-word/paddle/), [page](/bip39-word/page/) and [pair](/bip39-word/pair/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
- **"paus"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins pausa in the [Spanish list](/spanish/) and pausar in the [Portuguese list](/portuguese/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #1292 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) popsat 

[French](/french/) mutuel 

[Italian](/italian/) pineta 

[Japanese](/japanese/) てほん 

[Korean](/korean/) 유산 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) moldura 

[Spanish](/spanish/) oficio 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

 One BIP39 word differs from "pause" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand: 

[cause](/bip39-word/cause/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "P"

[ #1288 path ](/bip39-word/path/)[ #1289 patient ](/bip39-word/patient/)[ #1290 patrol ](/bip39-word/patrol/)[ #1291 pattern ](/bip39-word/pattern/)[ #1293 pave ](/bip39-word/pave/)[ #1294 payment ](/bip39-word/payment/)[ #1295 peace ](/bip39-word/peace/)[ #1296 peanut ](/bip39-word/peanut/) 

[View all words starting with "P" ](/bip39-words/p/) 

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [Invalid Seed Phrase? How to Find and Fix a Wrong Word (BIP39)](/how-to-fix-seed-phrase-errors/)
- [Ethereum Keystore File (JSON Wallet): Structure and Security](/json-wallets-explained/)
- [What Is BIP39? The Standard Behind Seed Phrases](/bip39-the-foundation-of-crypto-wallet-security/)

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