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title: "BIP39 Word #74: ankle — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/ankle/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #74 00001001001 

# ankle — BIP39 word #74

"**ankle**" is word #74 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [animal](/bip39-word/animal/) and [announce](/bip39-word/announce/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00001001001`, decimal index 73\. 

/ˈæŋkl/  · _noun:_ the joint connecting the foot to the leg 

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

## Binary Representation

Three 1-bits and eight 0-bits; 165 of the 2048 indexes have exactly three 1-bits.

One wrong bit turns it into (leftmost bit first):

[matrix](/bip39-word/matrix/)[empty](/bip39-word/empty/)[circle](/bip39-word/circle/)[bomb](/bip39-word/bomb/)[abuse](/bip39-word/abuse/)[artwork](/bip39-word/artwork/)[arctic](/bip39-word/arctic/)[amused](/bip39-word/amused/)[answer](/bip39-word/answer/)[annual](/bip39-word/annual/)[animal](/bip39-word/animal/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x049

4-Letter Prefix

ankl

## About "ankle" in BIP39

- "ankle" has 5 letters, but the first three, **"ank"**, 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.

## Word #74 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) blatouch 

[French](/french/) alarmer 

[Italian](/italian/) alzare 

[Japanese](/japanese/) いじゅう 

[Korean](/korean/) 게시판 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) agiota 

[Spanish](/spanish/) algodón 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

[angle](/bip39-word/angle/) 

Read aloud, "ankle" /ˈæŋkl/ is one sound away from these 2 words: 

[anchor /ˈæŋkə/](/bip39-word/anchor/)[uncle /ˈʌŋkl/](/bip39-word/uncle/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "A"

[ #70 anger ](/bip39-word/anger/)[ #71 angle ](/bip39-word/angle/)[ #72 angry ](/bip39-word/angry/)[ #73 animal ](/bip39-word/animal/)[ #75 announce ](/bip39-word/announce/)[ #76 annual ](/bip39-word/annual/)[ #77 another ](/bip39-word/another/)[ #78 answer ](/bip39-word/answer/) 

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

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