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title: "BIP39 Word #656: faint — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/faint/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #656 01010001111 

# faint — BIP39 word #656

"**faint**" is word #656 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [fade](/bip39-word/fade/) and [faith](/bip39-word/faith/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `01010001111`, decimal index 655\. 

/feɪnt/  · _adjective:_ hard to see, hear or smell, or about to lose consciousness 

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

## Binary Representation

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

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

[spin](/bip39-word/spin/)[ball](/bip39-word/ball/)[impose](/bip39-word/impose/)[draft](/bip39-word/draft/)[fly](/bip39-word/fly/)[field](/bip39-word/field/)[fault](/bip39-word/fault/)[extend](/bip39-word/extend/)[fabric](/bip39-word/fabric/)[faculty](/bip39-word/faculty/)[fade](/bip39-word/fade/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x28F

4-Letter Prefix

fain

## About "faint" in BIP39

- "faint" has 5 letters, but the first four, **"fain"**, already identify it, because **"fai"** also begins [faith](/bip39-word/faith/).

## Word #656 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) kotel 

[French](/french/) émouvoir 

[Italian](/italian/) filo 

[Japanese](/japanese/) ことがら 

[Korean](/korean/) 보안 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) duplo 

[Spanish](/spanish/) evento 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Words sharing the first three letters "fai":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "F"

[ #652 fabric ](/bip39-word/fabric/)[ #653 face ](/bip39-word/face/)[ #654 faculty ](/bip39-word/faculty/)[ #655 fade ](/bip39-word/fade/)[ #657 faith ](/bip39-word/faith/)[ #658 fall ](/bip39-word/fall/)[ #659 false ](/bip39-word/false/)[ #660 fame ](/bip39-word/fame/) 

[View all words starting with "F" ](/bip39-words/f/) 

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