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title: "BIP39 Word #1699: stairs — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/stairs/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1699 11010100010 

# stairs — BIP39 word #1699

"**stairs**" is word #1699 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [stage](/bip39-word/stage/) and [stamp](/bip39-word/stamp/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `11010100010`, decimal index 1698\. 

/steəz/  · _noun:_ a set of steps leading from one floor to another 

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

## 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):

[february](/bip39-word/february/)[nephew](/bip39-word/nephew/)[violin](/bip39-word/violin/)[session](/bip39-word/session/)[sword](/bip39-word/sword/)[space](/bip39-word/space/)[stone](/bip39-word/stone/)[stem](/bip39-word/stem/)[state](/bip39-word/state/)[staff](/bip39-word/staff/)[stamp](/bip39-word/stamp/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x6A2

4-Letter Prefix

stai

## About "stairs" in BIP39

- "stairs" has 6 letters, but the first four, **"stai"**, already identify it, because **"sta"** also begins 9 other words, among them [stable](/bip39-word/stable/), [stadium](/bip39-word/stadium/), [staff](/bip39-word/staff/) and [stage](/bip39-word/stage/).

## Word #1699 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) topol 

[French](/french/) sabler 

[Italian](/italian/) soldato 

[Japanese](/japanese/) ぶたにく 

[Korean](/korean/) 청바지 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) roncar 

[Spanish](/spanish/) sed 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Words sharing the first three letters "sta":

[stable](/bip39-word/stable/)[stadium](/bip39-word/stadium/)[staff](/bip39-word/staff/)[stage](/bip39-word/stage/)[stamp](/bip39-word/stamp/)[stand](/bip39-word/stand/)[start](/bip39-word/start/)[state](/bip39-word/state/)[stay](/bip39-word/stay/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "S"

[ #1695 stable ](/bip39-word/stable/)[ #1696 stadium ](/bip39-word/stadium/)[ #1697 staff ](/bip39-word/staff/)[ #1698 stage ](/bip39-word/stage/)[ #1700 stamp ](/bip39-word/stamp/)[ #1701 stand ](/bip39-word/stand/)[ #1702 start ](/bip39-word/start/)[ #1703 state ](/bip39-word/state/) 

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

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