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title: "BIP39 Word #978: kick — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/kick/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #978 01111010001 

# kick — BIP39 word #978

"**kick**" is word #978 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [key](/bip39-word/key/) and [kid](/bip39-word/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](/ru/ "The BIP39 wordlist with Russian translations"): 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):

[when](/bip39-word/when/)[demand](/bip39-word/demand/)[focus](/bip39-word/focus/)[health](/bip39-word/health/)[impulse](/bip39-word/impulse/)[lawsuit](/bip39-word/lawsuit/)[join](/bip39-word/join/)[kite](/bip39-word/kite/)[kingdom](/bip39-word/kingdom/)[kidney](/bip39-word/kidney/)[key](/bip39-word/key/) 

Position

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](/bip39-word/kid/), [kidney](/bip39-word/kidney/), [kind](/bip39-word/kind/) and [kingdom](/bip39-word/kingdom/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
- "kick" appears in one of the 24 official English [test vectors](https://github.com/trezor/python-mnemonic/blob/master/vectors.json) of BIP39: vector #16 (word 8 of 12). 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 #16

[scheme](/bip39-word/scheme/) [spot](/bip39-word/spot/) [photo](/bip39-word/photo/) [card](/bip39-word/card/) [baby](/bip39-word/baby/) [mountain](/bip39-word/mountain/) [device](/bip39-word/device/) kick [cradle](/bip39-word/cradle/) [pact](/bip39-word/pact/) [join](/bip39-word/join/) [borrow](/bip39-word/borrow/) 

## Word #978 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) nikterak 

[French](/french/) hiberner 

[Italian](/italian/) marmo 

[Japanese](/japanese/) せんちょう 

[Korean](/korean/) 시장 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) guloso 

[Spanish](/spanish/) lamer 

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

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

## 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: 

[sick](/bip39-word/sick/) 

Read aloud, "kick" /kɪk/ is one sound away from these 7 words: 

[cake /keɪk/](/bip39-word/cake/)[click /klɪk/](/bip39-word/click/)[cook /kʊk/](/bip39-word/cook/)[kid /kɪd/](/bip39-word/kid/)[kiss /kɪs/](/bip39-word/kiss/)[kit /kɪt/](/bip39-word/kit/)[quick /kwɪk/](/bip39-word/quick/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "K"

[ #974 keen ](/bip39-word/keen/)[ #975 keep ](/bip39-word/keep/)[ #976 ketchup ](/bip39-word/ketchup/)[ #977 key ](/bip39-word/key/)[ #979 kid ](/bip39-word/kid/)[ #980 kidney ](/bip39-word/kidney/)[ #981 kind ](/bip39-word/kind/)[ #982 kingdom ](/bip39-word/kingdom/) 

[View all words starting with "K" ](/bip39-words/k/) 

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [BIP-444 (Now BIP 110): Reduced Data Temporary Softfork Explained](/bip-444-reduced-data-temporary-softfork/)
- [Metal Seed Phrase Backup: Steel Plates, Tiles and Tests](/metal-seed-phrase-backup/)
- [Invalid Seed Phrase? How to Find and Fix a Wrong Word (BIP39)](/how-to-fix-seed-phrase-errors/)

[ Full BIP39 Wordlist ](/)