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title: "BIP39 Word #658: fall — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/fall/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #658 01010010001 

# fall — BIP39 word #658

"**fall**" is word #658 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [faith](/bip39-word/faith/) and [false](/bip39-word/false/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `01010010001`, decimal index 657\. 

/fɔːl/  · _verb:_ to drop down toward the ground, or to become lower 

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

## 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):

[split](/bip39-word/split/)[banana](/bip39-word/banana/)[impulse](/bip39-word/impulse/)[drama](/bip39-word/drama/)[focus](/bip39-word/focus/)[file](/bip39-word/file/)[expand](/bip39-word/expand/)[farm](/bip39-word/farm/)[famous](/bip39-word/famous/)[fame](/bip39-word/fame/)[faith](/bip39-word/faith/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x291

4-Letter Prefix

fall

## About "fall" in BIP39

- It takes all four letters to identify "fall": **"fal"** also begins [false](/bip39-word/false/).
- **"fall"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins fallo in the [Spanish list](/spanish/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #658 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) kotoul 

[French](/french/) employer 

[Italian](/italian/) finestra 

[Japanese](/japanese/) ことば 

[Korean](/korean/) 보장 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) durante 

[Spanish](/spanish/) exacto 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

[all](/bip39-word/all/)[ball](/bip39-word/ball/)[call](/bip39-word/call/)[wall](/bip39-word/wall/) 

Read aloud, "fall" /fɔːl/ is one sound away from these 7 words: 

[false /fɔːls/](/bip39-word/false/)[fault /fɔːlt/](/bip39-word/fault/)[feel /fiːl/](/bip39-word/feel/)[file /faɪl/](/bip39-word/file/)[foil /fɔɪl/](/bip39-word/foil/)[force /fɔːs/](/bip39-word/force/)[fork /fɔːk/](/bip39-word/fork/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "fal":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "F"

[ #654 faculty ](/bip39-word/faculty/)[ #655 fade ](/bip39-word/fade/)[ #656 faint ](/bip39-word/faint/)[ #657 faith ](/bip39-word/faith/)[ #659 false ](/bip39-word/false/)[ #660 fame ](/bip39-word/fame/)[ #661 family ](/bip39-word/family/)[ #662 famous ](/bip39-word/famous/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [xpub, ypub and zpub: Extended Public Keys Explained](/xpub-ypub-zpub/)
- [SLIP-39 vs BIP39: Shamir Backup and 20-Word Shares Explained](/slip39-vs-bip39/)
- [Why You Should Never Create Your Own Seed Phrase](/why-you-should-never-create-your-own-seed-phrase/)

[ Full BIP39 Wordlist ](/)
