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title: "BIP39 Word #168: belt — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/belt/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #168 00010100111 

# belt — BIP39 word #168

"**belt**" is word #168 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [below](/bip39-word/below/) and [bench](/bip39-word/bench/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00010100111`, decimal index 167\. 

/bɛlt/  · _noun:_ a strip of leather or cloth worn around the waist 

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

## Binary Representation

Five 1-bits and six 0-bits; 462 of the 2048 indexes have exactly five 1-bits.

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

[neutral](/bip39-word/neutral/)[female](/bip39-word/female/)[crunch](/bip39-word/crunch/)[agent](/bip39-word/agent/)[brother](/bip39-word/brother/)[axis](/bip39-word/axis/)[black](/bip39-word/black/)[bicycle](/bip39-word/bicycle/)[behave](/bip39-word/behave/)[believe](/bip39-word/believe/)[below](/bip39-word/below/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x0A7

4-Letter Prefix

belt

## About "belt" in BIP39

- It takes all four letters to identify "belt": **"bel"** also begins [believe](/bip39-word/believe/) and [below](/bip39-word/below/).

## Word #168 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) chodba 

[French](/french/) aubaine 

[Italian](/italian/) attesa 

[Japanese](/japanese/) うすぎ 

[Korean](/korean/) 광장 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) aranha 

[Spanish](/spanish/) asombro 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

 2 BIP39 words differ from "belt" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand: 

[best](/bip39-word/best/)[melt](/bip39-word/melt/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "bel":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "B"

[ #164 behave ](/bip39-word/behave/)[ #165 behind ](/bip39-word/behind/)[ #166 believe ](/bip39-word/believe/)[ #167 below ](/bip39-word/below/)[ #169 bench ](/bip39-word/bench/)[ #170 benefit ](/bip39-word/benefit/)[ #171 best ](/bip39-word/best/)[ #172 betray ](/bip39-word/betray/) 

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

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[ Full BIP39 Wordlist ](/)
