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title: "BIP39 Word #178: bike — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/bike/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #178 00010110001 

# bike — BIP39 word #178

"**bike**" is word #178 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [bid](/bip39-word/bid/) and [bind](/bip39-word/bind/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00010110001`, decimal index 177\. 

/baɪk/  · _noun:_ an informal word for a bicycle or motorcycle 

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

## Binary Representation

Four 1-bits and seven 0-bits; 330 of the 2048 indexes have exactly four 1-bits.

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

[normal](/bip39-word/normal/)[file](/bip39-word/file/)[curtain](/bip39-word/curtain/)[alert](/bip39-word/alert/)[bullet](/bip39-word/bullet/)[banana](/bip39-word/banana/)[before](/bip39-word/before/)[blame](/bip39-word/blame/)[birth](/bip39-word/birth/)[biology](/bip39-word/biology/)[bid](/bip39-word/bid/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x0B1

4-Letter Prefix

bike

## About "bike" in BIP39

- "bike" has 4 letters, but the first three, **"bik"**, already identify it, because **"bi"** also begins 7 other words, among them [bicycle](/bip39-word/bicycle/), [bid](/bip39-word/bid/), [bind](/bip39-word/bind/) and [biology](/bip39-word/biology/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.

## Word #178 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) chtivost 

[French](/french/) avarice 

[Italian](/italian/) avanzato 

[Japanese](/japanese/) うったえる 

[Korean](/korean/) 교장 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) arma 

[Spanish](/spanish/) atento 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

Read aloud, "bike" /baɪk/ is one sound away from these 2 words: 

[book /bʊk/](/bip39-word/book/)[buyer /ˈbaɪə/](/bip39-word/buyer/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "B"

[ #174 between ](/bip39-word/between/)[ #175 beyond ](/bip39-word/beyond/)[ #176 bicycle ](/bip39-word/bicycle/)[ #177 bid ](/bip39-word/bid/)[ #179 bind ](/bip39-word/bind/)[ #180 biology ](/bip39-word/biology/)[ #181 bird ](/bip39-word/bird/)[ #182 birth ](/bip39-word/birth/) 

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

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