Word #1662 11001111101
soul — BIP39 word #1662
"soul" is word #1662 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between sort and sound.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
11001111101,
decimal index 1661.
/səʊl/ · noun: the spiritual part of a person believed to live after death
Russian: душа
Binary Representation
Eight 1-bits and three 0-bits; 165 of the 2048 indexes have exactly eight 1-bits.
One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):
Position
#1662 of 2048
Hex Index
0x67D
4-Letter Prefix
soul
About "soul" in BIP39
- It takes all four letters to identify "soul": "sou" also begins sound, soup, source and south.
- "soul" is unique only within the English list: it also begins soulever in the French list and soulad in the Czech list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
Word #1662 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
One BIP39 word differs from "soul" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "soul" /səʊl/ is one sound away from these 6 words: