Word #978 01111010001
kick — BIP39 word #978
"kick" is word #978 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between key and kid.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
01111010001,
decimal index 977.
/kɪk/ · verb: to hit something with your foot
Russian: пинок
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):
Position
#978 of 2048
Hex Index
0x3D1
4-Letter Prefix
kick
About "kick" in BIP39
- "kick" has 4 letters, but the first three, "kic", already identify it, because "ki" also begins 10 other words, among them kid, kidney, kind and kingdom. Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
- "kick" appears in one of the 24 official English test vectors of BIP39: vector #16 (word 8 of 12). Every official vector passes the checksum checker, and How BIP39 works shows how the entropy turns into such words.
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Word #978 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists
Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery
One BIP39 word differs from "kick" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:
Read aloud, "kick" /kɪk/ is one sound away from these 7 words: