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title: "BIP39 Word #1634: slow — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/slow/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1634 11001100001 

# slow — BIP39 word #1634

"**slow**" is word #1634 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [slot](/bip39-word/slot/) and [slush](/bip39-word/slush/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `11001100001`, decimal index 1633\. 

/sləʊ/  · _adjective:_ moving or happening without much speed 

[Russian](/ru/ "The BIP39 wordlist with Russian translations"): медленный 

## 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):

[equip](/bip39-word/equip/)[method](/bip39-word/method/)[umbrella](/bip39-word/umbrella/)[switch](/bip39-word/switch/)[service](/bip39-word/service/)[sight](/bip39-word/sight/)[soda](/bip39-word/soda/)[snake](/bip39-word/snake/)[smile](/bip39-word/smile/)[small](/bip39-word/small/)[slot](/bip39-word/slot/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x661

4-Letter Prefix

slow

## About "slow" in BIP39

- It takes all four letters to identify "slow": **"slo"** also begins [slogan](/bip39-word/slogan/) and [slot](/bip39-word/slot/).

## Word #1634 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) surikata 

[French](/french/) renard 

[Italian](/italian/) sfaldare 

[Japanese](/japanese/) ひっし 

[Korean](/korean/) 직장 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) recordar 

[Spanish](/spanish/) roer 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

[glow](/bip39-word/glow/)[slot](/bip39-word/slot/)[snow](/bip39-word/snow/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "slo":

[slogan](/bip39-word/slogan/)[slot](/bip39-word/slot/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "S"

[ #1630 slight ](/bip39-word/slight/)[ #1631 slim ](/bip39-word/slim/)[ #1632 slogan ](/bip39-word/slogan/)[ #1633 slot ](/bip39-word/slot/)[ #1635 slush ](/bip39-word/slush/)[ #1636 small ](/bip39-word/small/)[ #1637 smart ](/bip39-word/smart/)[ #1638 smile ](/bip39-word/smile/) 

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

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [BIP 44 – Multi-Account Hierarchy for Deterministic Wallets](/bip-44-multi-account-hierarchy-for-deterministic-wallets/)
- [Electrum Seed vs BIP39: Why Other Wallets Reject It](/electrum-seed-vs-bip39/)
- [Cold Sharding: Splitting a Private Key Into Offline Shamir Shares](/cold-sharding-method-private-key-storage-strategy/)

[ Full BIP39 Wordlist ](/)
