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title: "BIP39 Word #1389: pulse — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/pulse/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1389 10101101100 

# pulse — BIP39 word #1389

"**pulse**" is word #1389 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [pulp](/bip39-word/pulp/) and [pumpkin](/bip39-word/pumpkin/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `10101101100`, decimal index 1388\. 

/pʌls/  · _noun:_ the regular beating of blood through the arteries as the heart pumps 

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

## 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):

[collect](/bip39-word/collect/)[unique](/bip39-word/unique/)[mirror](/bip39-word/mirror/)[rural](/bip39-word/rural/)[pitch](/bip39-word/pitch/)[praise](/bip39-word/praise/)[question](/bip39-word/question/)[prosper](/bip39-word/prosper/)[public](/bip39-word/public/)[punch](/bip39-word/punch/)[pumpkin](/bip39-word/pumpkin/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x56C

4-Letter Prefix

puls

## About "pulse" in BIP39

- "pulse" has 5 letters, but the first four, **"puls"**, already identify it, because **"pul"** also begins [pull](/bip39-word/pull/) and [pulp](/bip39-word/pulp/).
- **"puls"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins pulsar in the [French list](/french/), pulso in the [Spanish list](/spanish/), pulsante in the [Italian list](/italian/) and pulseira in the [Portuguese list](/portuguese/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
- "pulse" appears in one of the 24 official English [test vectors](https://github.com/trezor/python-mnemonic/blob/master/vectors.json) of BIP39: vector #17 (word 9 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 #17

[horn](/bip39-word/horn/) [tenant](/bip39-word/tenant/) [knee](/bip39-word/knee/) [talent](/bip39-word/talent/) [sponsor](/bip39-word/sponsor/) [spell](/bip39-word/spell/) [gate](/bip39-word/gate/) [clip](/bip39-word/clip/) pulse [soap](/bip39-word/soap/) [slush](/bip39-word/slush/) [warm](/bip39-word/warm/) [silver](/bip39-word/silver/) [nephew](/bip39-word/nephew/) [swap](/bip39-word/swap/) [uncle](/bip39-word/uncle/) [crack](/bip39-word/crack/) [brave](/bip39-word/brave/) 

## Word #1389 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) radon 

[French](/french/) orbite 

[Italian](/italian/) raffica 

[Japanese](/japanese/) なにわ 

[Korean](/korean/) 일행 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) oliveira 

[Spanish](/spanish/) payaso 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

Read aloud, "pulse" /pʌls/ is one sound away from this word: 

[pulp /pʌlp/](/bip39-word/pulp/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "pul":

[pull](/bip39-word/pull/)[pulp](/bip39-word/pulp/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "P"

[ #1385 public ](/bip39-word/public/)[ #1386 pudding ](/bip39-word/pudding/)[ #1387 pull ](/bip39-word/pull/)[ #1388 pulp ](/bip39-word/pulp/)[ #1390 pumpkin ](/bip39-word/pumpkin/)[ #1391 punch ](/bip39-word/punch/)[ #1392 pupil ](/bip39-word/pupil/)[ #1393 puppy ](/bip39-word/puppy/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

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