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title: "BIP39 Word #1685: spoon — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/spoon/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1685 11010010100 

# spoon — BIP39 word #1685

"**spoon**" is word #1685 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [sponsor](/bip39-word/sponsor/) and [sport](/bip39-word/sport/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `11010010100`, decimal index 1684\. 

/spuːn/  · _noun:_ a tool with a small shallow bowl on a handle, used for eating 

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

## 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):

[family](/bip39-word/family/)[myth](/bip39-word/myth/)[verb](/bip39-word/verb/)[secret](/bip39-word/secret/)[surround](/bip39-word/surround/)[story](/bip39-word/story/)[spatial](/bip39-word/spatial/)[squeeze](/bip39-word/squeeze/)[spirit](/bip39-word/spirit/)[spot](/bip39-word/spot/)[sport](/bip39-word/sport/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x694

4-Letter Prefix

spoo

## About "spoon" in BIP39

- "spoon" has 5 letters, but the first four, **"spoo"**, already identify it, because **"spo"** also begins [spoil](/bip39-word/spoil/), [sponsor](/bip39-word/sponsor/), [sport](/bip39-word/sport/) and [spot](/bip39-word/spot/).

## Word #1685 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) termoska 

[French](/french/) rouille 

[Italian](/italian/) smilzo 

[Japanese](/japanese/) ふえる 

[Korean](/korean/) 챔피언 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) rigoroso 

[Spanish](/spanish/) sano 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

Read aloud, "spoon" /spuːn/ is one sound away from these 2 words: 

[spawn /spɔːn/](/bip39-word/spawn/)[spin /spɪn/](/bip39-word/spin/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "spo":

[spoil](/bip39-word/spoil/)[sponsor](/bip39-word/sponsor/)[sport](/bip39-word/sport/)[spot](/bip39-word/spot/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "S"

[ #1681 spirit ](/bip39-word/spirit/)[ #1682 split ](/bip39-word/split/)[ #1683 spoil ](/bip39-word/spoil/)[ #1684 sponsor ](/bip39-word/sponsor/)[ #1686 sport ](/bip39-word/sport/)[ #1687 spot ](/bip39-word/spot/)[ #1688 spray ](/bip39-word/spray/)[ #1689 spread ](/bip39-word/spread/) 

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

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