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title: "BIP39 Word #1619: ski — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/ski/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1619 11001010010 

# ski — BIP39 word #1619

"**ski**" is word #1619 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [sketch](/bip39-word/sketch/) and [skill](/bip39-word/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](/ru/ "The BIP39 wordlist with Russian translations"): 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):

[engage](/bip39-word/engage/)[medal](/bip39-word/medal/)[tumble](/bip39-word/tumble/)[surge](/bip39-word/surge/)[seat](/bip39-word/seat/)[soft](/bip39-word/soft/)[sign](/bip39-word/sign/)[slender](/bip39-word/slender/)[skull](/bip39-word/skull/)[skate](/bip39-word/skate/)[skill](/bip39-word/skill/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x652

4-Letter Prefix

ski

## About "ski" in BIP39

- All three letters of "ski" also begin longer words: [skill](/bip39-word/skill/), [skin](/bip39-word/skin/) and [skirt](/bip39-word/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](/czech/) stres 

[French](/french/) région 

[Italian](/italian/) senso 

[Japanese](/japanese/) ひけつ 

[Korean](/korean/) 지름길 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) raspador 

[Spanish](/spanish/) rigor 

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

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

## 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: 

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

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

[key /kiː/](/bip39-word/key/)[scare /skeə/](/bip39-word/scare/)[scheme /skiːm/](/bip39-word/scheme/)[sea /siː/](/bip39-word/sea/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "ski":

[skill](/bip39-word/skill/)[skin](/bip39-word/skin/)[skirt](/bip39-word/skirt/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "S"

[ #1615 six ](/bip39-word/six/)[ #1616 size ](/bip39-word/size/)[ #1617 skate ](/bip39-word/skate/)[ #1618 sketch ](/bip39-word/sketch/)[ #1620 skill ](/bip39-word/skill/)[ #1621 skin ](/bip39-word/skin/)[ #1622 skirt ](/bip39-word/skirt/)[ #1623 skull ](/bip39-word/skull/) 

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

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