Word #73 00001001000
animal — BIP39 word #73
"animal" is word #73 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between angry and ankle.
In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value
00001001000,
decimal index 72.
/ˈænɪməl/ · noun: a living creature that breathes, moves and feeds, unlike a plant
Russian: животное
Binary Representation
Two 1-bits and nine 0-bits; 55 of the 2048 indexes have exactly two 1-bits.
One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):
Position
#73 of 2048
Hex Index
0x048
4-Letter Prefix
anim
About "animal" in BIP39
- "animal" has 6 letters, but the first three, "ani", already identify it, because "an" also begins 15 other words, among them analyst, anchor, ancient and anger. Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
- The same spelling is in the French BIP39 wordlist, but as word #111 (index 110), not #73. A wallet set to French reads "animal" as 00001101110 instead of 00001001000, and decodes index 72 as "ajuster".
- "anim" is unique only within the English list: it also begins anima in the Italian list and animar in the Portuguese list, so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.