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title: "BIP39 Word #166: believe — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/believe/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #166 00010100101 

# believe — BIP39 word #166

"**believe**" is word #166 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [behind](/bip39-word/behind/) and [below](/bip39-word/below/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00010100101`, decimal index 165\. 

/bɪˈliːv/  · _verb:_ to accept something as true or real 

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

## Binary Representation

Four 1-bits and seven 0-bits; 330 of the 2048 indexes have exactly four 1-bits.

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

[net](/bip39-word/net/)[feed](/bip39-word/feed/)[cruise](/bip39-word/cruise/)[again](/bip39-word/again/)[bronze](/bip39-word/bronze/)[awful](/bip39-word/awful/)[birth](/bip39-word/birth/)[between](/bip39-word/between/)[before](/bip39-word/before/)[belt](/bip39-word/belt/)[behind](/bip39-word/behind/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x0A5

4-Letter Prefix

beli

## About "believe" in BIP39

- "believe" has 7 letters, but the first four, **"beli"**, already identify it, because **"bel"** also begins [below](/bip39-word/below/) and [belt](/bip39-word/belt/).
- **"beli"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins beliscar in the [Portuguese list](/portuguese/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #166 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) chobot 

[French](/french/) attirer 

[Italian](/italian/) atomico 

[Japanese](/japanese/) うしろがみ 

[Korean](/korean/) 광경 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) aquecer 

[Spanish](/spanish/) asistir 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Words sharing the first three letters "bel":

[below](/bip39-word/below/)[belt](/bip39-word/belt/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "B"

[ #162 before ](/bip39-word/before/)[ #163 begin ](/bip39-word/begin/)[ #164 behave ](/bip39-word/behave/)[ #165 behind ](/bip39-word/behind/)[ #167 below ](/bip39-word/below/)[ #168 belt ](/bip39-word/belt/)[ #169 bench ](/bip39-word/bench/)[ #170 benefit ](/bip39-word/benefit/) 

[View all words starting with "B" ](/bip39-words/b/) 

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