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title: "BIP39 Word #1662: soul — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/soul/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1662 11001111101 

# soul — BIP39 word #1662

"**soul**" is word #1662 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [sort](/bip39-word/sort/) and [sound](/bip39-word/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](/ru/ "The BIP39 wordlist with Russian translations"): 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):

[exile](/bip39-word/exile/)[moral](/bip39-word/moral/)[use](/bip39-word/use/)[text](/bip39-word/text/)[sibling](/bip39-word/sibling/)[slight](/bip39-word/slight/)[soap](/bip39-word/soap/)[solid](/bip39-word/solid/)[song](/bip39-word/song/)[soup](/bip39-word/soup/)[sort](/bip39-word/sort/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x67D

4-Letter Prefix

soul

## About "soul" in BIP39

- It takes all four letters to identify "soul": **"sou"** also begins [sound](/bip39-word/sound/), [soup](/bip39-word/soup/), [source](/bip39-word/source/) and [south](/bip39-word/south/).
- **"soul"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins soulever in the [French list](/french/) and soulad in the [Czech list](/czech/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #1662 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) tajit 

[French](/french/) richesse 

[Italian](/italian/) signore 

[Japanese](/japanese/) ひりょう 

[Korean](/korean/) 찬물 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) represa 

[Spanish](/spanish/) sábado 

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

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

## 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: 

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

Read aloud, "soul" /səʊl/ is one sound away from these 6 words: 

[hole /həʊl/](/bip39-word/hole/)[pole /pəʊl/](/bip39-word/pole/)[sail /seɪl/](/bip39-word/sail/)[sell /sɛl/](/bip39-word/sell/)[soap /səʊp/](/bip39-word/soap/)[solar /ˈsəʊlə/](/bip39-word/solar/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "sou":

[sound](/bip39-word/sound/)[soup](/bip39-word/soup/)[source](/bip39-word/source/)[south](/bip39-word/south/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "S"

[ #1658 song ](/bip39-word/song/)[ #1659 soon ](/bip39-word/soon/)[ #1660 sorry ](/bip39-word/sorry/)[ #1661 sort ](/bip39-word/sort/)[ #1663 sound ](/bip39-word/sound/)[ #1664 soup ](/bip39-word/soup/)[ #1665 source ](/bip39-word/source/)[ #1666 south ](/bip39-word/south/) 

[View all words starting with "S" ](/bip39-words/s/) 

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