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title: "BIP39 Word #1671: speak — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/speak/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1671 11010000110 

# speak — BIP39 word #1671

"**speak**" is word #1671 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [spawn](/bip39-word/spawn/) and [special](/bip39-word/special/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `11010000110`, decimal index 1670\. 

/spiːk/  · _verb:_ to say words aloud, or to talk to someone 

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

## 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):

[express](/bip39-word/express/)[move](/bip39-word/move/)[valid](/bip39-word/valid/)[school](/bip39-word/school/)[sugar](/bip39-word/sugar/)[state](/bip39-word/state/)[spot](/bip39-word/spot/)[spike](/bip39-word/spike/)[space](/bip39-word/space/)[spatial](/bip39-word/spatial/)[special](/bip39-word/special/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x686

4-Letter Prefix

spea

## About "speak" in BIP39

- "speak" has 5 letters, but the first four, **"spea"**, already identify it, because **"spe"** also begins [special](/bip39-word/special/), [speed](/bip39-word/speed/), [spell](/bip39-word/spell/) and [spend](/bip39-word/spend/).

## Word #1671 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) tavenina 

[French](/french/) rituel 

[Italian](/italian/) sino 

[Japanese](/japanese/) ひんけつ 

[Korean](/korean/) 찻잔 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) ressaca 

[Spanish](/spanish/) salero 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

Read aloud, "speak" /spiːk/ is one sound away from these 3 words: 

[seek /siːk/](/bip39-word/seek/)[speed /spiːd/](/bip39-word/speed/)[spike /spaɪk/](/bip39-word/spike/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "spe":

[special](/bip39-word/special/)[speed](/bip39-word/speed/)[spell](/bip39-word/spell/)[spend](/bip39-word/spend/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "S"

[ #1667 space ](/bip39-word/space/)[ #1668 spare ](/bip39-word/spare/)[ #1669 spatial ](/bip39-word/spatial/)[ #1670 spawn ](/bip39-word/spawn/)[ #1672 special ](/bip39-word/special/)[ #1673 speed ](/bip39-word/speed/)[ #1674 spell ](/bip39-word/spell/)[ #1675 spend ](/bip39-word/spend/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [How to Encrypt a Seed Phrase: AES, XOR and Steganography](/seed-phrase-encrypting-with-aes-xor-and-steganography/)
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