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title: "BIP39 Word #668: fat — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/fat/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #668 01010011011 

# fat — BIP39 word #668

"**fat**" is word #668 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [fashion](/bip39-word/fashion/) and [fatal](/bip39-word/fatal/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `01010011011`, decimal index 667\. 

/fæt/  · _adjective:_ having a lot of flesh on the body, or thick and wide 

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

## 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):

[square](/bip39-word/square/)[beach](/bip39-word/beach/)[inflict](/bip39-word/inflict/)[drop](/bip39-word/drop/)[fork](/bip39-word/fork/)[first](/bip39-word/first/)[fabric](/bip39-word/fabric/)[fame](/bip39-word/fame/)[fault](/bip39-word/fault/)[farm](/bip39-word/farm/)[fashion](/bip39-word/fashion/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x29B

4-Letter Prefix

fat

## About "fat" in BIP39

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

## Word #668 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) krajina 

[French](/french/) endroit 

[Italian](/italian/) florido 

[Japanese](/japanese/) こふん 

[Korean](/korean/) 볶음 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) ejetar 

[Spanish](/spanish/) explicar 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

[cat](/bip39-word/cat/)[fan](/bip39-word/fan/)[fit](/bip39-word/fit/)[flat](/bip39-word/flat/)[hat](/bip39-word/hat/) 

Read aloud, "fat" /fæt/ is one sound away from these 3 words: 

[chat /ʧæt/](/bip39-word/chat/)[foot /fʊt/](/bip39-word/foot/)[that /ðæt/](/bip39-word/that/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "fat":

[fatal](/bip39-word/fatal/)[father](/bip39-word/father/)[fatigue](/bip39-word/fatigue/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "F"

[ #664 fancy ](/bip39-word/fancy/)[ #665 fantasy ](/bip39-word/fantasy/)[ #666 farm ](/bip39-word/farm/)[ #667 fashion ](/bip39-word/fashion/)[ #669 fatal ](/bip39-word/fatal/)[ #670 father ](/bip39-word/father/)[ #671 fatigue ](/bip39-word/fatigue/)[ #672 fault ](/bip39-word/fault/) 

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

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