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title: "BIP39 Word #1209: novel — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/novel/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1209 10010111000 

# novel — BIP39 word #1209

"**novel**" is word #1209 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [notice](/bip39-word/notice/) and [now](/bip39-word/now/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `10010111000`, decimal index 1208\. 

/ˈnɒvəl/  · _noun:_ a long written story about imaginary people and events 

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

## 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):

[blade](/bip39-word/blade/)[strike](/bip39-word/strike/)[require](/bip39-word/require/)[mandate](/bip39-word/mandate/)[pair](/bip39-word/pair/)[narrow](/bip39-word/narrow/)[never](/bip39-word/never/)[noodle](/bip39-word/noodle/)[nurse](/bip39-word/nurse/)[nuclear](/bip39-word/nuclear/)[now](/bip39-word/now/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x4B8

4-Letter Prefix

nove

## About "novel" in BIP39

- "novel" has 5 letters, but the first three, **"nov"**, already identify it, because **"no"** also begins 12 other words, among them [noble](/bip39-word/noble/), [noise](/bip39-word/noise/), [nominee](/bip39-word/nominee/) and [noodle](/bip39-word/noodle/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
- **"nove"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins novembre in the [French list](/french/), novela in the [Spanish list](/spanish/), novella in the [Italian list](/italian/) and novelo in the [Portuguese list](/portuguese/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #1209 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) pinzeta 

[French](/french/) massif 

[Italian](/italian/) pace 

[Japanese](/japanese/) ちらし 

[Korean](/korean/) 오전 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) maluco 

[Spanish](/spanish/) nácar 

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

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "N"

[ #1205 notable ](/bip39-word/notable/)[ #1206 note ](/bip39-word/note/)[ #1207 nothing ](/bip39-word/nothing/)[ #1208 notice ](/bip39-word/notice/)[ #1210 now ](/bip39-word/now/)[ #1211 nuclear ](/bip39-word/nuclear/)[ #1212 number ](/bip39-word/number/)[ #1213 nurse ](/bip39-word/nurse/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [Is My Seed Phrase Compromised? Signs and What to Do Next](/bip39-seed-phrase-compromise/)
- [BIP 32 Explained: Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets](/bip-32/)
- [Can You Guess a Seed Phrase? Probability and Real Risks](/can-you-guess-a-seed-phrase-probability-and-real-risks/)

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