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title: "BIP39 Word #997: lady — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/lady/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #997 01111100100 

# lady — BIP39 word #997

"**lady**" is word #997 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [ladder](/bip39-word/ladder/) and [lake](/bip39-word/lake/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `01111100100`, decimal index 996\. 

/ˈleɪdi/  · _noun:_ a polite word for a woman 

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

## 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):

[wish](/bip39-word/wish/)[develop](/bip39-word/develop/)[frame](/bip39-word/frame/)[hold](/bip39-word/hold/)[innocent](/bip39-word/innocent/)[joy](/bip39-word/joy/)[leader](/bip39-word/leader/)[laugh](/bip39-word/laugh/)[lab](/bip39-word/lab/)[lamp](/bip39-word/lamp/)[lake](/bip39-word/lake/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x3E4

4-Letter Prefix

lady

## About "lady" in BIP39

- It takes all four letters to identify "lady": **"lad"** also begins [ladder](/bip39-word/ladder/).

## Word #997 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) nymfa 

[French](/french/) huileux 

[Italian](/italian/) meninge 

[Japanese](/japanese/) そいとげる 

[Korean](/korean/) 식탁 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) holofote 

[Spanish](/spanish/) leche 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

Words sharing the first three letters "lad":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "L"

[ #993 lab ](/bip39-word/lab/)[ #994 label ](/bip39-word/label/)[ #995 labor ](/bip39-word/labor/)[ #996 ladder ](/bip39-word/ladder/)[ #998 lake ](/bip39-word/lake/)[ #999 lamp ](/bip39-word/lamp/)[ #1000 language ](/bip39-word/language/)[ #1001 laptop ](/bip39-word/laptop/) 

[View all words starting with "L" ](/bip39-words/l/) 

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