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title: "BIP39 Word #1035: life — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/life/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1035 10000001010 

# life — BIP39 word #1035

"**life**" is word #1035 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [license](/bip39-word/license/) and [lift](/bip39-word/lift/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `10000001010`, decimal index 1034\. 

/laɪf/  · _noun:_ the state of being alive, or the time between birth and death 

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

## Binary Representation

Three 1-bits and eight 0-bits; 165 of the 2048 indexes have exactly three 1-bits.

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

[access](/bip39-word/access/)[scout](/bip39-word/scout/)[pattern](/bip39-word/pattern/)[mule](/bip39-word/mule/)[matter](/bip39-word/matter/)[luxury](/bip39-word/luxury/)[local](/bip39-word/local/)[leopard](/bip39-word/leopard/)[limb](/bip39-word/limb/)[library](/bip39-word/library/)[lift](/bip39-word/lift/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x40A

4-Letter Prefix

life

## About "life" in BIP39

- It takes all four letters to identify "life": **"lif"** also begins [lift](/bip39-word/lift/).

## Word #1035 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) ocel 

[French](/french/) infini 

[Italian](/italian/) modello 

[Japanese](/japanese/) そまつ 

[Korean](/korean/) 심판 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) incluir 

[Spanish](/spanish/) litio 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

[lift](/bip39-word/lift/)[like](/bip39-word/like/)[live](/bip39-word/live/)[wife](/bip39-word/wife/) 

Read aloud, "life" /laɪf/ is one sound away from these 5 words: 

[knife /naɪf/](/bip39-word/knife/)[laugh /lɑːf/](/bip39-word/laugh/)[leaf /liːf/](/bip39-word/leaf/)[liar /ˈlaɪə/](/bip39-word/liar/)[light /laɪt/](/bip39-word/light/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "lif":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "L"

[ #1031 liar ](/bip39-word/liar/)[ #1032 liberty ](/bip39-word/liberty/)[ #1033 library ](/bip39-word/library/)[ #1034 license ](/bip39-word/license/)[ #1036 lift ](/bip39-word/lift/)[ #1037 light ](/bip39-word/light/)[ #1038 like ](/bip39-word/like/)[ #1039 limb ](/bip39-word/limb/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [12 vs 24 Word Seed Phrase: Which Is More Secure?](/12-vs-24-word-seed-phrase/)
- [BIP 157 Client-Side Block Filtering: Compact Filters Explained](/bip-157-client-side-block-filtering/)
- [Bitcoin Core Seed Phrase: Why There Is None and How to Back Up](/bitcoin-core-seed-phrase-backup-guide/)

[ Full BIP39 Wordlist ](/)
