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title: "BIP39 Word #73: animal — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/animal/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #73 00001001000 

# animal — BIP39 word #73

"**animal**" is word #73 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [angry](/bip39-word/angry/) and [ankle](/bip39-word/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](/ru/ "The BIP39 wordlist with Russian translations"): 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):

[math](/bip39-word/math/)[empower](/bip39-word/empower/)[cinnamon](/bip39-word/cinnamon/)[boil](/bip39-word/boil/)[absurd](/bip39-word/absurd/)[artist](/bip39-word/artist/)[arch](/bip39-word/arch/)[amount](/bip39-word/amount/)[another](/bip39-word/another/)[announce](/bip39-word/announce/)[ankle](/bip39-word/ankle/) 

Position

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](/bip39-word/analyst/), [anchor](/bip39-word/anchor/), [ancient](/bip39-word/ancient/) and [anger](/bip39-word/anger/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
- The same spelling is in the [French BIP39 wordlist](/french/), 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](/italian/) and animar in the [Portuguese list](/portuguese/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.

## Word #73 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) blahobyt 

[French](/french/) ajuster 

[Italian](/italian/) alveolo 

[Japanese](/japanese/) いしき 

[Korean](/korean/) 검토 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) agilizar 

[Spanish](/spanish/) alga 

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

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "A"

[ #69 ancient ](/bip39-word/ancient/)[ #70 anger ](/bip39-word/anger/)[ #71 angle ](/bip39-word/angle/)[ #72 angry ](/bip39-word/angry/)[ #74 ankle ](/bip39-word/ankle/)[ #75 announce ](/bip39-word/announce/)[ #76 annual ](/bip39-word/annual/)[ #77 another ](/bip39-word/another/) 

[View all words starting with "A" ](/bip39-words/a/) 

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [How to Encrypt a Seed Phrase: AES, XOR and Steganography](/seed-phrase-encrypting-with-aes-xor-and-steganography/)
- [Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP): Process and Deployed BIP List](/bitcoin-improvement-proposal/)
- [TON Seed Phrase: 24-Word Format vs 12-Word BIP39 Phrases](/seed-phrase-format-for-ton-wallets/)

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