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title: "BIP39 Word #198: board — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/board/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #198 00011000101 

# board — BIP39 word #198

"**board**" is word #198 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [blush](/bip39-word/blush/) and [boat](/bip39-word/boat/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00011000101`, decimal index 197\. 

/bɔːd/  · _noun:_ a flat piece of wood or other material, or a governing group 

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

## 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):

[obvious](/bip39-word/obvious/)[flavor](/bip39-word/flavor/)[december](/bip39-word/december/)[anger](/bip39-word/anger/)[awful](/bip39-word/awful/)[bronze](/bip39-word/bronze/)[boy](/bip39-word/boy/)[boost](/bip39-word/boost/)[blouse](/bip39-word/blouse/)[body](/bip39-word/body/)[blush](/bip39-word/blush/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x0C5

4-Letter Prefix

boar

## About "board" in BIP39

- "board" has 5 letters, but the first four, **"boar"**, already identify it, because **"boa"** also begins [boat](/bip39-word/boat/).

## Word #198 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) clona 

[French](/french/) baleine 

[Italian](/italian/) ballata 

[Japanese](/japanese/) うりきれ 

[Korean](/korean/) 국립 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) atadura 

[Spanish](/spanish/) avena 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Read aloud, "board" /bɔːd/ is one sound away from these 5 words: 

[ball /bɔːl/](/bip39-word/ball/)[bid /bɪd/](/bip39-word/bid/)[bird /bɜːd/](/bip39-word/bird/)[border /ˈbɔːdə/](/bip39-word/border/)[sword /sɔːd/](/bip39-word/sword/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "boa":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "B"

[ #194 blouse ](/bip39-word/blouse/)[ #195 blue ](/bip39-word/blue/)[ #196 blur ](/bip39-word/blur/)[ #197 blush ](/bip39-word/blush/)[ #199 boat ](/bip39-word/boat/)[ #200 body ](/bip39-word/body/)[ #201 boil ](/bip39-word/boil/)[ #202 bomb ](/bip39-word/bomb/) 

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

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- [Bitcoin Private Key Format: WIF, Base58 and Hex Explained](/private-key-btc/)
- [How to Encrypt a Seed Phrase: AES, XOR and Steganography](/seed-phrase-encrypting-with-aes-xor-and-steganography/)
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