--- title: "BIP39 Word #227: brisk — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word" url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/brisk/" language: "en" updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00" --- Word #227 00011100010 # brisk — BIP39 word #227 "**brisk**" is word #227 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [bring](/bip39-word/bring/) and [broccoli](/bip39-word/broccoli/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00011100010`, decimal index 226\. /brɪsk/ · _adjective:_ quick and energetic, or pleasantly cold [Russian](/ru/ "The BIP39 wordlist with Russian translations"): бодрый ## 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): [ordinary](/bip39-word/ordinary/)[fox](/bip39-word/fox/)[detail](/bip39-word/detail/)[arrange](/bip39-word/arrange/)[begin](/bip39-word/begin/)[blue](/bip39-word/blue/)[bundle](/bip39-word/bundle/)[bubble](/bip39-word/bubble/)[broom](/bip39-word/broom/)[bright](/bip39-word/bright/)[broccoli](/bip39-word/broccoli/) Position Hex Index 0x0E2 4-Letter Prefix bris ## About "brisk" in BIP39 - "brisk" has 5 letters, but the first four, **"bris"**, already identify it, because **"bri"** also begins [brick](/bip39-word/brick/), [bridge](/bip39-word/bridge/), [brief](/bip39-word/brief/), [bright](/bip39-word/bright/) and [bring](/bip39-word/bring/). - **"bris"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins brisa in the [Spanish list](/spanish/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses. - "brisk" appears in one of the 24 official English [test vectors](https://github.com/trezor/python-mnemonic/blob/master/vectors.json) of BIP39: vector #23 (word 14 of 18). Every official vector passes the [checksum checker](/bip39-checksum-checker/), and [How BIP39 works](/how-bip39-works/) shows how the entropy turns into such words. Official test vector #23 [scissors](/bip39-word/scissors/) [invite](/bip39-word/invite/) [lock](/bip39-word/lock/) [maple](/bip39-word/maple/) [supreme](/bip39-word/supreme/) [raw](/bip39-word/raw/) [rapid](/bip39-word/rapid/) [void](/bip39-word/void/) [congress](/bip39-word/congress/) [muscle](/bip39-word/muscle/) [digital](/bip39-word/digital/) [elegant](/bip39-word/elegant/) [little](/bip39-word/little/) brisk [hair](/bip39-word/hair/) [mango](/bip39-word/mango/) [congress](/bip39-word/congress/) [clump](/bip39-word/clump/) ## Word #227 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists [Czech](/czech/) deska [French](/french/) besogne [Italian](/italian/) bici [Japanese](/japanese/) えほうまき [Korean](/korean/) 그토록 [Portuguese](/portuguese/) avisar [Spanish](/spanish/) barro [Traditional Chinese](/chinese-traditional/) 將 [Simplified Chinese](/chinese-simplified/) 将 ## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery 2 BIP39 words differ from "brisk" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand: [brick](/bip39-word/brick/)[risk](/bip39-word/risk/) Words sharing the first three letters "bri": [brick](/bip39-word/brick/)[bridge](/bip39-word/bridge/)[brief](/bip39-word/brief/)[bright](/bip39-word/bright/)[bring](/bip39-word/bring/) ## More BIP39 Words Starting with "B" [ #223 bridge ](/bip39-word/bridge/)[ #224 brief ](/bip39-word/brief/)[ #225 bright ](/bip39-word/bright/)[ #226 bring ](/bip39-word/bring/)[ #228 broccoli ](/bip39-word/broccoli/)[ #229 broken ](/bip39-word/broken/)[ #230 bronze ](/bip39-word/bronze/)[ #231 broom ](/bip39-word/broom/) [View all words starting with "B" ](/bip39-words/b/) ## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides - [Ethereum Keystore File (JSON Wallet): Structure and Security](/json-wallets-explained/) - [What Is BIP39? The Standard Behind Seed Phrases](/bip39-the-foundation-of-crypto-wallet-security/) - [Seed Phrase Examples: 12, 18 and 24 BIP39 Mnemonic Phrases](/mnemonic-words-examples-for-crypto-security-bip39/) [ Full BIP39 Wordlist ](/)