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title: "BIP39 Word #199: boat — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/boat/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #199 00011000110 

# boat — BIP39 word #199

"**boat**" is word #199 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [board](/bip39-word/board/) and [body](/bip39-word/body/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00011000110`, decimal index 198\. 

/bəʊt/  · _noun:_ a small vessel for traveling on water 

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

## 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):

[occur](/bip39-word/occur/)[flee](/bip39-word/flee/)[decide](/bip39-word/decide/)[angle](/bip39-word/angle/)[awkward](/bip39-word/awkward/)[broom](/bip39-word/broom/)[bracket](/bip39-word/bracket/)[border](/bip39-word/border/)[blue](/bip39-word/blue/)[blush](/bip39-word/blush/)[body](/bip39-word/body/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x0C6

4-Letter Prefix

boat

## About "boat" in BIP39

- It takes all four letters to identify "boat": **"boa"** also begins [board](/bip39-word/board/).
- **"boat"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins boato in the [Portuguese list](/portuguese/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #199 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) cokoliv 

[French](/french/) balisage 

[Italian](/italian/) balzano 

[Japanese](/japanese/) うるさい 

[Korean](/korean/) 국물 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) atalho 

[Spanish](/spanish/) avestruz 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

Read aloud, "boat" /bəʊt/ is one sound away from these 3 words: 

[bone /bəʊn/](/bip39-word/bone/)[note /nəʊt/](/bip39-word/note/)[vote /vəʊt/](/bip39-word/vote/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "boa":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "B"

[ #195 blue ](/bip39-word/blue/)[ #196 blur ](/bip39-word/blur/)[ #197 blush ](/bip39-word/blush/)[ #198 board ](/bip39-word/board/)[ #200 body ](/bip39-word/body/)[ #201 boil ](/bip39-word/boil/)[ #202 bomb ](/bip39-word/bomb/)[ #203 bone ](/bip39-word/bone/) 

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

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