Word #1619 11001010010

ski — BIP39 word #1619

"ski" is word #1619 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between sketch and skill. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 11001010010, decimal index 1618.

/skiː/ · noun: one of a pair of long narrow strips for sliding over snow

Russian: лыжи

Binary Representation

Five 1-bits and six 0-bits; 462 of the 2048 indexes have exactly five 1-bits.

One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):

Position

#1619 of 2048

Hex Index

0x652

4-Letter Prefix

ski

About "ski" in BIP39

  • All three letters of "ski" also begin longer words: skill, skin and skirt. So "ski" cannot be shortened, and a backup that keeps the first four letters of each word stores it as "ski" but skill as "skil".

Word #1619 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech stres
French région
Italian senso
Japanese ひけつ
Korean 지름길
Portuguese raspador
Spanish rigor

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

Read aloud, "ski" /skiː/ is one sound away from these 4 words:

Words sharing the first three letters "ski":

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