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title: "BIP39 Word #176: bicycle — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/bicycle/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #176 00010101111 

# bicycle — BIP39 word #176

"**bicycle**" is word #176 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [beyond](/bip39-word/beyond/) and [bid](/bip39-word/bid/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00010101111`, decimal index 175\. 

/ˈbaɪsɪkl/  · _noun:_ a vehicle with two wheels that you ride by pedaling 

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

## Binary Representation

Six 1-bits and five 0-bits; 462 of the 2048 indexes have exactly six 1-bits.

One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):

[nominee](/bip39-word/nominee/)[field](/bip39-word/field/)[curious](/bip39-word/curious/)[album](/bip39-word/album/)[bulb](/bip39-word/bulb/)[ball](/bip39-word/ball/)[blood](/bip39-word/blood/)[belt](/bip39-word/belt/)[betray](/bip39-word/betray/)[between](/bip39-word/between/)[beyond](/bip39-word/beyond/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x0AF

4-Letter Prefix

bicy

## About "bicycle" in BIP39

- "bicycle" has 7 letters, but the first three, **"bic"**, already identify it, because **"bi"** also begins 7 other words, among them [bid](/bip39-word/bid/), [bike](/bip39-word/bike/), [bind](/bip39-word/bind/) and [biology](/bip39-word/biology/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
- The same spelling is in the [French BIP39 wordlist](/french/), but as word #231 (index 230), not #176\. A wallet set to French reads "bicycle" as **00011100110** instead of **00010101111**, and decodes index 175 as "avaler".
- **"bicy"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins bicykl in the [Czech list](/czech/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #176 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) chrt 

[French](/french/) avaler 

[Italian](/italian/) autonomo 

[Japanese](/japanese/) うっかり 

[Korean](/korean/) 교양 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) argiloso 

[Spanish](/spanish/) ataque 

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

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "B"

[ #172 betray ](/bip39-word/betray/)[ #173 better ](/bip39-word/better/)[ #174 between ](/bip39-word/between/)[ #175 beyond ](/bip39-word/beyond/)[ #177 bid ](/bip39-word/bid/)[ #178 bike ](/bip39-word/bike/)[ #179 bind ](/bip39-word/bind/)[ #180 biology ](/bip39-word/biology/) 

[View all words starting with "B" ](/bip39-words/b/) 

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