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title: "BIP39 Word #1203: north — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/north/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1203 10010110010 

# north — BIP39 word #1203

"**north**" is word #1203 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [normal](/bip39-word/normal/) and [nose](/bip39-word/nose/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `10010110010`, decimal index 1202\. 

/nɔːθ/  · _noun:_ the direction to your left when facing the rising sun 

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

## Binary Representation

Five 1-bits and six 0-bits; 462 of the 2048 indexes have exactly five 1-bits.

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

[bind](/bip39-word/bind/)[stone](/bip39-word/stone/)[rent](/bip39-word/rent/)[main](/bip39-word/main/)[oxygen](/bip39-word/oxygen/)[myself](/bip39-word/myself/)[nephew](/bip39-word/nephew/)[nuclear](/bip39-word/nuclear/)[nothing](/bip39-word/nothing/)[noodle](/bip39-word/noodle/)[nose](/bip39-word/nose/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x4B2

4-Letter Prefix

nort

## About "north" in BIP39

- "north" has 5 letters, but the first four, **"nort"**, already identify it, because **"nor"** also begins [normal](/bip39-word/normal/).
- **"nort"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins norte in the [Spanish list](/spanish/) and nortear in the [Portuguese list](/portuguese/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
- "north" appears in one of the 24 official English [test vectors](https://github.com/trezor/python-mnemonic/blob/master/vectors.json) of BIP39: vector #14 (word 3 of 18). 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 #14

[gravity](/bip39-word/gravity/) [machine](/bip39-word/machine/) north [sort](/bip39-word/sort/) [system](/bip39-word/system/) [female](/bip39-word/female/) [filter](/bip39-word/filter/) [attitude](/bip39-word/attitude/) [volume](/bip39-word/volume/) [fold](/bip39-word/fold/) [club](/bip39-word/club/) [stay](/bip39-word/stay/) [feature](/bip39-word/feature/) [office](/bip39-word/office/) [ecology](/bip39-word/ecology/) [stable](/bip39-word/stable/) [narrow](/bip39-word/narrow/) [fog](/bip39-word/fog/) 

## Word #1203 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) pijavice 

[French](/french/) mardi 

[Italian](/italian/) oviparo 

[Japanese](/japanese/) ちめいど 

[Korean](/korean/) 오로지 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) magreza 

[Spanish](/spanish/) muro 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

Words sharing the first three letters "nor":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "N"

[ #1199 noise ](/bip39-word/noise/)[ #1200 nominee ](/bip39-word/nominee/)[ #1201 noodle ](/bip39-word/noodle/)[ #1202 normal ](/bip39-word/normal/)[ #1204 nose ](/bip39-word/nose/)[ #1205 notable ](/bip39-word/notable/)[ #1206 note ](/bip39-word/note/)[ #1207 nothing ](/bip39-word/nothing/) 

[View all words starting with "N" ](/bip39-words/n/) 

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [Seed Phrase Formats by Network: BIP39 and the Exceptions](/seed-phrase-formats-by-network/)
- [BIP39 vs BIP32 vs BIP44: How the Seed Standards Fit Together](/crypto-seed-standards-bip39-vs-bip32-vs-bip44/)
- [How to Memorize a Seed Phrase: Color, Story and Palace Methods](/seed-phrase-memory/)

[ Full BIP39 Wordlist ](/)