Word #1623 11001010110

skull — BIP39 word #1623

"skull" is word #1623 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between skirt and slab. In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value 11001010110, decimal index 1622.

/skʌl/ · noun: the bony frame of the head that protects the brain

Russian: череп

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

#1623 of 2048

Hex Index

0x656

4-Letter Prefix

skul

About "skull" in BIP39

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

Word #1623 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

Czech studna
French rejeter
Italian serata
Japanese ひさしぶり
Korean 지식
Portuguese ratoeira
Spanish riqueza

Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

Read aloud, "skull" /skʌl/ is one sound away from these 2 words:

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