--- title: "BIP39 Word #1338: poet — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word" url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/poet/" language: "en" updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00" --- Word #1338 10100111001 # poet — BIP39 word #1338 "**poet**" is word #1338 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [poem](/bip39-word/poem/) and [point](/bip39-word/point/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `10100111001`, decimal index 1337\. /ˈpəʊɪt/ · _noun:_ a person who writes poems [Russian](/ru/ "The BIP39 wordlist with Russian translations"): поэт ## 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): [cheese](/bip39-word/cheese/)[transfer](/bip39-word/transfer/)[mango](/bip39-word/mango/)[rescue](/bip39-word/rescue/)[quality](/bip39-word/quality/)[permit](/bip39-word/permit/)[pioneer](/bip39-word/pioneer/)[plate](/bip39-word/plate/)[police](/bip39-word/police/)[polar](/bip39-word/polar/)[poem](/bip39-word/poem/) Position Hex Index 0x539 4-Letter Prefix poet ## About "poet" in BIP39 - It takes all four letters to identify "poet": **"poe"** also begins [poem](/bip39-word/poem/). - **"poet"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins poeta in the [Spanish list](/spanish/) and poetisa in the [Portuguese list](/portuguese/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses. ## Word #1338 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists [Czech](/czech/) prase [French](/french/) novembre [Italian](/italian/) pratica [Japanese](/japanese/) とくしゅう [Korean](/korean/) 이슬 [Portuguese](/portuguese/) negrito [Spanish](/spanish/) otoño [Traditional Chinese](/chinese-traditional/) 藍 [Simplified Chinese](/chinese-simplified/) 蓝 ## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery 3 BIP39 words differ from "poet" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand: [pet](/bip39-word/pet/)[poem](/bip39-word/poem/)[post](/bip39-word/post/) Words sharing the first three letters "poe": [poem](/bip39-word/poem/) ## More BIP39 Words Starting with "P" [ #1334 pluck ](/bip39-word/pluck/)[ #1335 plug ](/bip39-word/plug/)[ #1336 plunge ](/bip39-word/plunge/)[ #1337 poem ](/bip39-word/poem/)[ #1339 point ](/bip39-word/point/)[ #1340 polar ](/bip39-word/polar/)[ #1341 pole ](/bip39-word/pole/)[ #1342 police ](/bip39-word/police/) [View all words starting with "P" ](/bip39-words/p/) ## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides - [Is a Seed Phrase Case Sensitive? BIP39 Words vs Passphrase](/is-seed-phrase-case-sensitivity-really-important/) - [BIP-444 (Now BIP 110): Reduced Data Temporary Softfork Explained](/bip-444-reduced-data-temporary-softfork/) - [Metal Seed Phrase Backup: Steel Plates, Tiles and Tests](/metal-seed-phrase-backup/) [ Full BIP39 Wordlist ](/)