--- title: "BIP39 Word #898: ice — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word" url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/ice/" language: "en" updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00" --- Word #898 01110000001 # ice — BIP39 word #898 "**ice**" is word #898 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [hybrid](/bip39-word/hybrid/) and [icon](/bip39-word/icon/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `01110000001`, decimal index 897\. /aɪs/ · _noun:_ water that has frozen into a solid [Russian](/ru/ "The BIP39 wordlist with Russian translations"): лёд ## 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): [usual](/bip39-word/usual/)[coral](/bip39-word/coral/)[expand](/bip39-word/expand/)[gasp](/bip39-word/gasp/)[join](/bip39-word/join/)[injury](/bip39-word/injury/)[impulse](/bip39-word/impulse/)[illness](/bip39-word/illness/)[idle](/bip39-word/idle/)[idea](/bip39-word/idea/)[hybrid](/bip39-word/hybrid/) Position Hex Index 0x381 4-Letter Prefix ice ## About "ice" in BIP39 - It takes all three letters to identify "ice": **"ic"** also begins [icon](/bip39-word/icon/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words. ## Word #898 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists [Czech](/czech/) muset [French](/french/) gazon [Italian](/italian/) lavoro [Japanese](/japanese/) ずっと [Korean](/korean/) 솜씨 [Portuguese](/portuguese/) galega [Spanish](/spanish/) icono [Traditional Chinese](/chinese-traditional/) 揚 [Simplified Chinese](/chinese-simplified/) 扬 ## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery 3 BIP39 words differ from "ice" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand: [dice](/bip39-word/dice/)[nice](/bip39-word/nice/)[rice](/bip39-word/rice/) Read aloud, "ice" /aɪs/ is one sound away from these 2 words: [aisle /aɪl/](/bip39-word/aisle/)[eye /aɪ/](/bip39-word/eye/) ## More BIP39 Words Starting with "I" [ #899 icon ](/bip39-word/icon/)[ #900 idea ](/bip39-word/idea/)[ #901 identify ](/bip39-word/identify/)[ #902 idle ](/bip39-word/idle/)[ #949 isolate ](/bip39-word/isolate/)[ #950 issue ](/bip39-word/issue/)[ #951 item ](/bip39-word/item/)[ #952 ivory ](/bip39-word/ivory/) [View all words starting with "I" ](/bip39-words/i/) ## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides - [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/) - [Test Your Wallet Backup: A Self-Audit of Your Seed Phrase](/hack-own-crypto-wallet/) [ Full BIP39 Wordlist ](/)