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title: "BIP39 Word #1918: use — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/use/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1918 11101111101 

# use — BIP39 word #1918

"**use**" is word #1918 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [usage](/bip39-word/usage/) and [used](/bip39-word/used/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `11101111101`, decimal index 1917\. 

/juːz/  · _verb:_ to do something with an object, method or skill for a purpose 

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

## Binary Representation

Nine 1-bits and two 0-bits; 55 of the 2048 indexes have exactly nine 1-bits.

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

[hurry](/bip39-word/hurry/)[quick](/bip39-word/quick/)[soul](/bip39-word/soul/)[zero](/bip39-word/zero/)[tray](/bip39-word/tray/)[two](/bip39-word/two/)[unit](/bip39-word/unit/)[upgrade](/bip39-word/upgrade/)[upset](/bip39-word/upset/)[useful](/bip39-word/useful/)[usage](/bip39-word/usage/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x77D

4-Letter Prefix

use

## About "use" in BIP39

- All three letters of "use" also begin longer words: [used](/bip39-word/used/), [useful](/bip39-word/useful/) and [useless](/bip39-word/useless/). So "use" cannot be shortened, and a backup that keeps the first four letters of each word stores it as **"use"** but used as **"used"**.

## Word #1918 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) vzadu 

[French](/french/) treuil 

[Italian](/italian/) ufficio 

[Japanese](/japanese/) やそう 

[Korean](/korean/) 학점 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) trapo 

[Spanish](/spanish/) tropa 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

Read aloud, "use" /juːz/ is one sound away from these 4 words: 

[choose /ʧuːz/](/bip39-word/choose/)[news /njuːz/](/bip39-word/news/)[you /juː/](/bip39-word/you/)[youth /juːθ/](/bip39-word/youth/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "use":

[used](/bip39-word/used/)[useful](/bip39-word/useful/)[useless](/bip39-word/useless/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "U"

[ #1914 upset ](/bip39-word/upset/)[ #1915 urban ](/bip39-word/urban/)[ #1916 urge ](/bip39-word/urge/)[ #1917 usage ](/bip39-word/usage/)[ #1919 used ](/bip39-word/used/)[ #1920 useful ](/bip39-word/useful/)[ #1921 useless ](/bip39-word/useless/)[ #1922 usual ](/bip39-word/usual/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [BIP-444 (Now BIP 110): Reduced Data Temporary Softfork Explained](/bip-444-reduced-data-temporary-softfork/)
- [Metal Seed Phrase Backup: Steel Plates, Tiles and Tests](/metal-seed-phrase-backup/)
- [Invalid Seed Phrase? How to Find and Fix a Wrong Word (BIP39)](/how-to-fix-seed-phrase-errors/)

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