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title: "BIP39 Word #1917: usage — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/usage/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1917 11101111100 

# usage — BIP39 word #1917

"**usage**" is word #1917 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [urge](/bip39-word/urge/) and [use](/bip39-word/use/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `11101111100`, decimal index 1916\. 

/ˈjuːzɪʤ/  · _noun:_ the way something is used, or the amount used 

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

## Binary Representation

Eight 1-bits and three 0-bits; 165 of the 2048 indexes have exactly eight 1-bits.

One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):

[hurdle](/bip39-word/hurdle/)[question](/bip39-word/question/)[sort](/bip39-word/sort/)[zebra](/bip39-word/zebra/)[travel](/bip39-word/travel/)[twist](/bip39-word/twist/)[unique](/bip39-word/unique/)[update](/bip39-word/update/)[upper](/bip39-word/upper/)[used](/bip39-word/used/)[use](/bip39-word/use/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x77C

4-Letter Prefix

usag

## About "usage" in BIP39

- "usage" has 5 letters, but the first three, **"usa"**, already identify it, because **"us"** also begins [use](/bip39-word/use/), [used](/bip39-word/used/), [useful](/bip39-word/useful/), [useless](/bip39-word/useless/) and [usual](/bip39-word/usual/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
- The same spelling is in the [French BIP39 wordlist](/french/), but as word #1955 (index 1954), not #1917\. A wallet set to French reads "usage" as **11110100010** instead of **11101111100**, and decodes index 1916 as "trésor".

## Word #1917 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) vyznat 

[French](/french/) trésor 

[Italian](/italian/) uffa 

[Japanese](/japanese/) やせる 

[Korean](/korean/) 학자 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) trancar 

[Spanish](/spanish/) tronco 

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

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "U"

[ #1913 upper ](/bip39-word/upper/)[ #1914 upset ](/bip39-word/upset/)[ #1915 urban ](/bip39-word/urban/)[ #1916 urge ](/bip39-word/urge/)[ #1918 use ](/bip39-word/use/)[ #1919 used ](/bip39-word/used/)[ #1920 useful ](/bip39-word/useful/)[ #1921 useless ](/bip39-word/useless/) 

[View all words starting with "U" ](/bip39-words/u/) 

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