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title: "BIP39 Word #781: ghost — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/ghost/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #781 01100001100 

# ghost — BIP39 word #781

"**ghost**" is word #781 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [gesture](/bip39-word/gesture/) and [giant](/bip39-word/giant/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `01100001100`, decimal index 780\. 

/gəʊst/  · _noun:_ the spirit of a dead person believed to appear to the living 

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

## 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):

[thunder](/bip39-word/thunder/)[canoe](/bip39-word/canoe/)[dose](/bip39-word/dose/)[immense](/bip39-word/immense/)[hat](/bip39-word/hat/)[grain](/bip39-word/grain/)[glory](/bip39-word/glory/)[gauge](/bip39-word/gauge/)[genre](/bip39-word/genre/)[gift](/bip39-word/gift/)[giant](/bip39-word/giant/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x30C

4-Letter Prefix

ghos

## About "ghost" in BIP39

- Two letters are enough: no other BIP39 word begins with **"gh"**, which makes "ghost" one of only 34 words that can be told apart this early.
- "ghost" appears in one of the 24 official English [test vectors](https://github.com/trezor/python-mnemonic/blob/master/vectors.json) of BIP39: vector #18 (word 23 of 24). Every official vector passes the [checksum checker](/bip39-checksum-checker/), and [How BIP39 works](/how-bip39-works/) shows how the entropy turns into such words.

Official test vector #18

[panda](/bip39-word/panda/) [eyebrow](/bip39-word/eyebrow/) [bullet](/bip39-word/bullet/) [gorilla](/bip39-word/gorilla/) [call](/bip39-word/call/) [smoke](/bip39-word/smoke/) [muffin](/bip39-word/muffin/) [taste](/bip39-word/taste/) [mesh](/bip39-word/mesh/) [discover](/bip39-word/discover/) [soft](/bip39-word/soft/) [ostrich](/bip39-word/ostrich/) [alcohol](/bip39-word/alcohol/) [speed](/bip39-word/speed/) [nation](/bip39-word/nation/) [flash](/bip39-word/flash/) [devote](/bip39-word/devote/) [level](/bip39-word/level/) [hobby](/bip39-word/hobby/) [quick](/bip39-word/quick/) [inner](/bip39-word/inner/) [drive](/bip39-word/drive/) ghost [inside](/bip39-word/inside/) 

## Word #781 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) lord 

[French](/french/) exulter 

[Italian](/italian/) gravoso 

[Japanese](/japanese/) しあさって 

[Korean](/korean/) 삼십 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) exibir 

[Spanish](/spanish/) ganso 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

 One BIP39 word differs from "ghost" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand: 

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

Read aloud, "ghost" /gəʊst/ is one sound away from these 5 words: 

[coast /kəʊst/](/bip39-word/coast/)[goat /gəʊt/](/bip39-word/goat/)[post /pəʊst/](/bip39-word/post/)[roast /rəʊst/](/bip39-word/roast/)[toast /təʊst/](/bip39-word/toast/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "G"

[ #777 genre ](/bip39-word/genre/)[ #778 gentle ](/bip39-word/gentle/)[ #779 genuine ](/bip39-word/genuine/)[ #780 gesture ](/bip39-word/gesture/)[ #782 giant ](/bip39-word/giant/)[ #783 gift ](/bip39-word/gift/)[ #784 giggle ](/bip39-word/giggle/)[ #785 ginger ](/bip39-word/ginger/) 

[View all words starting with "G" ](/bip39-words/g/) 

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [What Is a Seed Phrase? How a Recovery Phrase Works](/recovery-seed-phrase-guide/)
- [What Is a Bitcoin Address and How Does It Work?](/what-is-a-bitcoin-address/)
- [How to Generate a BIP39 Seed Phrase with Dice, Step by Step](/seed-phrase-with-dice/)

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