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title: "BIP39 Word #1337: poem — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/poem/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1337 10100111000 

# poem — BIP39 word #1337

"**poem**" is word #1337 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [plunge](/bip39-word/plunge/) and [poet](/bip39-word/poet/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `10100111000`, decimal index 1336\. 

/ˈpəʊɪm/  · _noun:_ a piece of writing arranged in lines, often with rhythm or rhyme 

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

## 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):

[check](/bip39-word/check/)[train](/bip39-word/train/)[mandate](/bip39-word/mandate/)[require](/bip39-word/require/)[pyramid](/bip39-word/pyramid/)[perfect](/bip39-word/perfect/)[pink](/bip39-word/pink/)[plastic](/bip39-word/plastic/)[pole](/bip39-word/pole/)[point](/bip39-word/point/)[poet](/bip39-word/poet/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x538

4-Letter Prefix

poem

## About "poem" in BIP39

- It takes all four letters to identify "poem": **"poe"** also begins [poet](/bip39-word/poet/).
- **"poem"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins poema in the [Spanish list](/spanish/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #1337 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) praporek 

[French](/french/) novateur 

[Italian](/italian/) prassi 

[Japanese](/japanese/) とくい 

[Korean](/korean/) 이성 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) negociar 

[Spanish](/spanish/) ostra 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

Words sharing the first three letters "poe":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "P"

[ #1333 pledge ](/bip39-word/pledge/)[ #1334 pluck ](/bip39-word/pluck/)[ #1335 plug ](/bip39-word/plug/)[ #1336 plunge ](/bip39-word/plunge/)[ #1338 poet ](/bip39-word/poet/)[ #1339 point ](/bip39-word/point/)[ #1340 polar ](/bip39-word/polar/)[ #1341 pole ](/bip39-word/pole/) 

[View all words starting with "P" ](/bip39-words/p/) 

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