Word #1617 11001010000

skate — BIP39 word #1617

"skate" is word #1617 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between size and sketch. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 11001010000, decimal index 1616.

/skeɪt/ · verb: to move on ice or ground wearing boots with blades or wheels

Russian: конёк

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):

Position

#1617 of 2048

Hex Index

0x650

4-Letter Prefix

skat

About "skate" in BIP39

  • "skate" has 5 letters, but the first three, "ska", already identify it, because "sk" also begins sketch, ski, skill, skin, skirt and skull. Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.

Word #1617 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech stoupat
French refuge
Italian seminato
Japanese ひかん
Korean 지급
Portuguese rascunho
Spanish rifa

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

One BIP39 word differs from "skate" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand:

Read aloud, "skate" /skeɪt/ is one sound away from these 3 words:

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