---
title: "BIP39 Word #2042: you — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/you/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
---

Word #2042 11111111001 

# you — BIP39 word #2042

"**you**" is word #2042 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [yellow](/bip39-word/yellow/) and [young](/bip39-word/young/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `11111111001`, decimal index 2041\. 

/juː/  · _pronoun:_ the person or people being spoken or written to 

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

## 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):

[left](/bip39-word/left/)[sand](/bip39-word/sand/)[tennis](/bip39-word/tennis/)[upset](/bip39-word/upset/)[warm](/bip39-word/warm/)[will](/bip39-word/will/)[wood](/bip39-word/wood/)[wreck](/bip39-word/wreck/)[zero](/bip39-word/zero/)[youth](/bip39-word/youth/)[yellow](/bip39-word/yellow/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x7F9

4-Letter Prefix

you

## About "you" in BIP39

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

## Word #2042 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) zvednout 

[French](/french/) wagon 

[Italian](/italian/) zitto 

[Japanese](/japanese/) わかやま 

[Korean](/korean/) 흥미 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) zangado 

[Spanish](/spanish/) zanja 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Read aloud, "you" /juː/ is one sound away from these 8 words: 

[few /fjuː/](/bip39-word/few/)[shoe /ʃuː/](/bip39-word/shoe/)[two /tuː/](/bip39-word/two/)[use /juːz/](/bip39-word/use/)[view /vjuː/](/bip39-word/view/)[year /jɪə/](/bip39-word/year/)[youth /juːθ/](/bip39-word/youth/)[zoo /zuː/](/bip39-word/zoo/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "you":

[young](/bip39-word/young/)[youth](/bip39-word/youth/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "Y"

[ #2039 yard ](/bip39-word/yard/)[ #2040 year ](/bip39-word/year/)[ #2041 yellow ](/bip39-word/yellow/)[ #2043 young ](/bip39-word/young/)[ #2044 youth ](/bip39-word/youth/) 

[View all words starting with "Y" ](/bip39-words/y/) 

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