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title: "BIP39 Word #868: hockey — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/hockey/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #868 01101100011 

# hockey — BIP39 word #868

"**hockey**" is word #868 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [hobby](/bip39-word/hobby/) and [hold](/bip39-word/hold/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `01101100011`, decimal index 867\. 

/ˈhɒki/  · _noun:_ a team game played with curved sticks and a ball or puck 

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

## 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):

[unaware](/bip39-word/unaware/)[cluster](/bip39-word/cluster/)[erase](/bip39-word/erase/)[ladder](/bip39-word/ladder/)[good](/bip39-word/good/)[half](/bip39-word/half/)[hover](/bip39-word/hover/)[hope](/bip39-word/hope/)[hollow](/bip39-word/hollow/)[history](/bip39-word/history/)[hobby](/bip39-word/hobby/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x363

4-Letter Prefix

hock

## About "hockey" in BIP39

- "hockey" has 6 letters, but the first three, **"hoc"**, already identify it, because **"ho"** also begins 17 other words, among them [hobby](/bip39-word/hobby/), [hold](/bip39-word/hold/), [hole](/bip39-word/hole/) and [holiday](/bip39-word/holiday/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.

## Word #868 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) molekula 

[French](/french/) freiner 

[Italian](/italian/) irlanda 

[Japanese](/japanese/) しんこう 

[Korean](/korean/) 소년 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) fossa 

[Spanish](/spanish/) hijo 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Read aloud, "hockey" /ˈhɒki/ is one sound away from this word: 

[hobby /ˈhɒbi/](/bip39-word/hobby/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "H"

[ #864 hip ](/bip39-word/hip/)[ #865 hire ](/bip39-word/hire/)[ #866 history ](/bip39-word/history/)[ #867 hobby ](/bip39-word/hobby/)[ #869 hold ](/bip39-word/hold/)[ #870 hole ](/bip39-word/hole/)[ #871 holiday ](/bip39-word/holiday/)[ #872 hollow ](/bip39-word/hollow/) 

[View all words starting with "H" ](/bip39-words/h/) 

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