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title: "BIP39 Word #1591: short — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/short/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1591 11000110110 

# short — BIP39 word #1591

"**short**" is word #1591 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [shop](/bip39-word/shop/) and [shoulder](/bip39-word/shoulder/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `11000110110`, decimal index 1590\. 

/ʃɔːt/  · _adjective:_ small in length, height or duration 

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

## 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):

[egg](/bip39-word/egg/)[man](/bip39-word/man/)[traffic](/bip39-word/traffic/)[strategy](/bip39-word/strategy/)[solution](/bip39-word/solution/)[security](/bip39-word/security/)[shadow](/bip39-word/shadow/)[sick](/bip39-word/sick/)[shock](/bip39-word/shock/)[shoot](/bip39-word/shoot/)[shoulder](/bip39-word/shoulder/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x636

4-Letter Prefix

shor

## About "short" in BIP39

- "short" has 5 letters, but the first four, **"shor"**, already identify it, because **"sho"** also begins [shock](/bip39-word/shock/), [shoe](/bip39-word/shoe/), [shoot](/bip39-word/shoot/), [shop](/bip39-word/shop/), [shoulder](/bip39-word/shoulder/) and [shove](/bip39-word/shove/).

## Word #1591 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) spojenec 

[French](/french/) ralentir 

[Italian](/italian/) scossone 

[Japanese](/japanese/) はんおん 

[Korean](/korean/) 중계방송 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) quente 

[Spanish](/spanish/) remo 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

 3 BIP39 words differ from "short" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand: 

[shoot](/bip39-word/shoot/)[sort](/bip39-word/sort/)[sport](/bip39-word/sport/) 

Read aloud, "short" /ʃɔːt/ is one sound away from these 2 words: 

[caught /kɔːt/](/bip39-word/caught/)[thought /θɔːt/](/bip39-word/thought/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "sho":

[shock](/bip39-word/shock/)[shoe](/bip39-word/shoe/)[shoot](/bip39-word/shoot/)[shop](/bip39-word/shop/)[shoulder](/bip39-word/shoulder/)[shove](/bip39-word/shove/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "S"

[ #1587 shock ](/bip39-word/shock/)[ #1588 shoe ](/bip39-word/shoe/)[ #1589 shoot ](/bip39-word/shoot/)[ #1590 shop ](/bip39-word/shop/)[ #1592 shoulder ](/bip39-word/shoulder/)[ #1593 shove ](/bip39-word/shove/)[ #1594 shrimp ](/bip39-word/shrimp/)[ #1595 shrug ](/bip39-word/shrug/) 

[View all words starting with "S" ](/bip39-words/s/) 

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- [How to Protect Your Crypto Wallet from Phishing](/protect-crypto-wallet-from-phishing/)
- [Monero Seed Phrase: 25 Words, Polyseed and Private Keys](/seed-phrase-and-private-key-format-of-monero-guide/)
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