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title: "BIP39 Word #448: dawn — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/dawn/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #448 00110111111 

# dawn — BIP39 word #448

"**dawn**" is word #448 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [daughter](/bip39-word/daughter/) and [day](/bip39-word/day/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `00110111111`, decimal index 447\. 

/dɔːn/  · _noun:_ the first light of day, just before the sun rises 

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

## Binary Representation

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

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

[retire](/bip39-word/retire/)[jewel](/bip39-word/jewel/)[blood](/bip39-word/blood/)[child](/bip39-word/child/)[divide](/bip39-word/divide/)[crop](/bip39-word/crop/)[curious](/bip39-word/curious/)[dad](/bip39-word/dad/)[danger](/bip39-word/danger/)[dash](/bip39-word/dash/)[daughter](/bip39-word/daughter/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x1BF

4-Letter Prefix

dawn

## About "dawn" in BIP39

- "dawn" has 4 letters, but the first three, **"daw"**, already identify it, because **"da"** also begins 9 other words, among them [dad](/bip39-word/dad/), [damage](/bip39-word/damage/), [damp](/bip39-word/damp/) and [dance](/bip39-word/dance/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.

## Word #448 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) hostina 

[French](/french/) corbeau 

[Italian](/italian/) decennio 

[Japanese](/japanese/) きらい 

[Korean](/korean/) 만세 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) cicatriz 

[Spanish](/spanish/) consejo 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

Read aloud, "dawn" /dɔːn/ is one sound away from these 3 words: 

[corn /kɔːn/](/bip39-word/corn/)[door /dɔː/](/bip39-word/door/)[horn /hɔːn/](/bip39-word/horn/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "D"

[ #444 danger ](/bip39-word/danger/)[ #445 daring ](/bip39-word/daring/)[ #446 dash ](/bip39-word/dash/)[ #447 daughter ](/bip39-word/daughter/)[ #449 day ](/bip39-word/day/)[ #450 deal ](/bip39-word/deal/)[ #451 debate ](/bip39-word/debate/)[ #452 debris ](/bip39-word/debris/) 

[View all words starting with "D" ](/bip39-words/d/) 

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