user's computer breaks or their hard drive becomes corrupted, they can download the same wallet software again and use the paper backup to get their bitcoins back.
## Example
An
example of a seed phrase is:
```
witch collapse practice feed shame open despair creek road again ice least
```
The word order is important.
recover Bitcoin funds [on-chain](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transaction). Wallet software will typically generate a seed phrase and instruct the user to write it down on paper. If the
user's computer breaks or their hard drive becomes corrupted, they can download the same wallet software again and use the paper backup to get their bitcoins back.
## Example
An
A **seed phrase**, **seed recovery phrase** or **backup seed phrase** is a list of words which [store](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Storing_bitcoins) all the information needed to
