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title: "BIP39 Word #1385: public — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/public/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1385 10101101000 

# public — BIP39 word #1385

"**public**" is word #1385 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [provide](/bip39-word/provide/) and [pudding](/bip39-word/pudding/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `10101101000`, decimal index 1384\. 

/ˈpʌblɪk/  · _adjective:_ relating to or open to all people in a community 

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

## 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):

[code](/bip39-word/code/)[unfair](/bip39-word/unfair/)[minimum](/bip39-word/minimum/)[rug](/bip39-word/rug/)[pink](/bip39-word/pink/)[poverty](/bip39-word/poverty/)[pyramid](/bip39-word/pyramid/)[project](/bip39-word/project/)[pulse](/bip39-word/pulse/)[pull](/bip39-word/pull/)[pudding](/bip39-word/pudding/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x568

4-Letter Prefix

publ

## About "public" in BIP39

- "public" has 6 letters, but the first three, **"pub"**, already identify it, because **"pu"** also begins 15 other words, among them [pudding](/bip39-word/pudding/), [pull](/bip39-word/pull/), [pulp](/bip39-word/pulp/) and [pulse](/bip39-word/pulse/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
- The same spelling is in the [French BIP39 wordlist](/french/), but as word #1568 (index 1567), not #1385\. A wallet set to French reads "public" as **11000011111** instead of **10101101000**, and decodes index 1384 as "opter".
- **"publ"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins publicar in the [Portuguese list](/portuguese/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #1385 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) racek 

[French](/french/) opter 

[Italian](/italian/) raccolto 

[Japanese](/japanese/) なつやすみ 

[Korean](/korean/) 일주일 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) ogiva 

[Spanish](/spanish/) patria 

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

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "P"

[ #1381 prosper ](/bip39-word/prosper/)[ #1382 protect ](/bip39-word/protect/)[ #1383 proud ](/bip39-word/proud/)[ #1384 provide ](/bip39-word/provide/)[ #1386 pudding ](/bip39-word/pudding/)[ #1387 pull ](/bip39-word/pull/)[ #1388 pulp ](/bip39-word/pulp/)[ #1389 pulse ](/bip39-word/pulse/) 

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

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