venue
/ˈvɛnjuː/
Binary Representation
11-bit index: 11110010011 (decimal 1939)
Position
#1940 of 2048
Hex Index
0x793
4-Letter Prefix
venu
About "venue" in BIP39
"venue" is the #1940 word
in the official BIP39 English mnemonic wordlist. It is encoded as the 11-bit binary value
11110010011
(decimal index 1939), placing it at the 95% mark of the full 2048-word list.
The 4-letter prefix "venu" uniquely identifies this word among all 2048 entries. At 5 characters, it falls in the typical length range for BIP39 words, balancing readability with distinctiveness during manual wallet recovery.
Near the end of the wordlist (index 1939), "venue" is part of the "V" letter group with 46 entries total, positioned at #17 in that group. Words in the upper range of the list have binary representations with more leading 1s.
In a 12-word seed phrase, each word encodes 11 bits of entropy. The probability of "venue" appearing in any specific position of a randomly generated phrase is 1 in 2048 (≈ 0.049%). A complete 24-word phrase encodes 256 bits of entropy, providing security equivalent to a key space of approximately 1.16 × 10⁷⁷ — far beyond the reach of brute-force attacks.
Word #1940 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Every official BIP39 wordlist has exactly 2048 entries, so index 1939 encodes the same 11-bit value
(11110010011) in every language.
A wallet configured for one of these languages would use this word instead of "venue":