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title: "BIP39 Word #1363: prevent — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/prevent/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1363 10101010010 

# prevent — BIP39 word #1363

"**prevent**" is word #1363 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [pretty](/bip39-word/pretty/) and [price](/bip39-word/price/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `10101010010`, decimal index 1362\. 

/prɪˈvɛnt/  · _verb:_ to stop something from happening 

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

## 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):

[clean](/bip39-word/clean/)[tumble](/bip39-word/tumble/)[medal](/bip39-word/medal/)[ripple](/bip39-word/ripple/)[pelican](/bip39-word/pelican/)[purity](/bip39-word/purity/)[portion](/bip39-word/portion/)[prize](/bip39-word/prize/)[print](/bip39-word/print/)[present](/bip39-word/present/)[price](/bip39-word/price/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x552

4-Letter Prefix

prev

## About "prevent" in BIP39

- "prevent" has 7 letters, but the first four, **"prev"**, already identify it, because **"pre"** also begins [predict](/bip39-word/predict/), [prefer](/bip39-word/prefer/), [prepare](/bip39-word/prepare/), [present](/bip39-word/present/) and [pretty](/bip39-word/pretty/).
- **"prev"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins previo in the [Spanish list](/spanish/), prevalso in the [Italian list](/italian/) and prevenir in the [Portuguese list](/portuguese/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #1363 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) psanec 

[French](/french/) odeur 

[Italian](/italian/) proteso 

[Japanese](/japanese/) とまる 

[Korean](/korean/) 인재 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) numeral 

[Spanish](/spanish/) pantera 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

Words sharing the first three letters "pre":

[predict](/bip39-word/predict/)[prefer](/bip39-word/prefer/)[prepare](/bip39-word/prepare/)[present](/bip39-word/present/)[pretty](/bip39-word/pretty/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "P"

[ #1359 prefer ](/bip39-word/prefer/)[ #1360 prepare ](/bip39-word/prepare/)[ #1361 present ](/bip39-word/present/)[ #1362 pretty ](/bip39-word/pretty/)[ #1364 price ](/bip39-word/price/)[ #1365 pride ](/bip39-word/pride/)[ #1366 primary ](/bip39-word/primary/)[ #1367 print ](/bip39-word/print/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [xpub, ypub and zpub: Extended Public Keys Explained](/xpub-ypub-zpub/)
- [SLIP-39 vs BIP39: Shamir Backup and 20-Word Shares Explained](/slip39-vs-bip39/)
- [Why You Should Never Create Your Own Seed Phrase](/why-you-should-never-create-your-own-seed-phrase/)

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