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title: "BIP39 Word #318: chicken — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/chicken/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #318 00100111101 

# chicken — BIP39 word #318

"**chicken**" is word #318 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [chest](/bip39-word/chest/) and [chief](/bip39-word/chief/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00100111101`, decimal index 317\. 

/ˈʧɪkɪn/  · _noun:_ a farm bird kept for its eggs and meat 

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

## 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):

[police](/bip39-word/police/)[guilt](/bip39-word/guilt/)[amateur](/bip39-word/amateur/)[dash](/bip39-word/dash/)[cook](/bip39-word/cook/)[casual](/bip39-word/casual/)[certain](/bip39-word/certain/)[chase](/bip39-word/chase/)[cheese](/bip39-word/cheese/)[child](/bip39-word/child/)[chest](/bip39-word/chest/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x13D

4-Letter Prefix

chic

## About "chicken" in BIP39

- "chicken" has 7 letters, but the first four, **"chic"**, already identify it, because **"chi"** also begins [chief](/bip39-word/chief/), [child](/bip39-word/child/) and [chimney](/bip39-word/chimney/).
- **"chic"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins chico in the [Spanish list](/spanish/), chicca in the [Italian list](/italian/), chicote in the [Portuguese list](/portuguese/) and chichot in the [Czech list](/czech/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #318 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) epocha 

[French](/french/) calomnie 

[Italian](/italian/) caso 

[Japanese](/japanese/) がいき 

[Korean](/korean/) 넷째 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) bonde 

[Spanish](/spanish/) calidad 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Words sharing the first three letters "chi":

[chief](/bip39-word/chief/)[child](/bip39-word/child/)[chimney](/bip39-word/chimney/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "C"

[ #314 cheese ](/bip39-word/cheese/)[ #315 chef ](/bip39-word/chef/)[ #316 cherry ](/bip39-word/cherry/)[ #317 chest ](/bip39-word/chest/)[ #319 chief ](/bip39-word/chief/)[ #320 child ](/bip39-word/child/)[ #321 chimney ](/bip39-word/chimney/)[ #322 choice ](/bip39-word/choice/) 

[View all words starting with "C" ](/bip39-words/c/) 

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [BIP 44 – Multi-Account Hierarchy for Deterministic Wallets](/bip-44-multi-account-hierarchy-for-deterministic-wallets/)
- [Electrum Seed vs BIP39: Why Other Wallets Reject It](/electrum-seed-vs-bip39/)
- [Cold Sharding: Splitting a Private Key Into Offline Shamir Shares](/cold-sharding-method-private-key-storage-strategy/)

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