Word #1620 11001010011

skill — BIP39 word #1620

"skill" is word #1620 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between ski and skin. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 11001010011, decimal index 1619.

/skɪl/ · noun: the ability to do something well, gained through practice

Russian: мастерство

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):

Position

#1620 of 2048

Hex Index

0x653

4-Letter Prefix

skil

About "skill" in BIP39

  • "skill" has 5 letters, but the first four, "skil", already identify it, because "ski" also begins ski, skin and skirt.
  • Its first letters also spell another BIP39 word, ski. Write "skill" out in full: cut short, it turns into a different valid word.

Word #1620 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech strhnout
French réglage
Italian sentire
Japanese ひこうき
Korean 지리산
Portuguese rasteira
Spanish rincón

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

Read aloud, "skill" /skɪl/ is one sound away from these 3 words:

Words sharing the first three letters "ski":

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