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title: "BIP39 Word #522: donkey — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/donkey/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #522 01000001001 

# donkey — BIP39 word #522

"**donkey**" is word #522 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [donate](/bip39-word/donate/) and [donor](/bip39-word/donor/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `01000001001`, decimal index 521\. 

/ˈdɒŋki/  · _noun:_ an animal like a small horse with long ears 

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

## 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):

[scorpion](/bip39-word/scorpion/)[abuse](/bip39-word/abuse/)[gentle](/bip39-word/gentle/)[eye](/bip39-word/eye/)[empty](/bip39-word/empty/)[early](/bip39-word/early/)[drip](/bip39-word/drip/)[dizzy](/bip39-word/dizzy/)[double](/bip39-word/double/)[door](/bip39-word/door/)[donate](/bip39-word/donate/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x209

4-Letter Prefix

donk

## About "donkey" in BIP39

- "donkey" has 6 letters, but the first four, **"donk"**, already identify it, because **"don"** also begins [donate](/bip39-word/donate/) and [donor](/bip39-word/donor/).

## Word #522 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) jenom 

[French](/french/) dégivrer 

[Italian](/italian/) ducale 

[Japanese](/japanese/) けいろ 

[Korean](/korean/) 문구 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) covil 

[Spanish](/spanish/) deporte 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

Words sharing the first three letters "don":

[donate](/bip39-word/donate/)[donor](/bip39-word/donor/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "D"

[ #518 doll ](/bip39-word/doll/)[ #519 dolphin ](/bip39-word/dolphin/)[ #520 domain ](/bip39-word/domain/)[ #521 donate ](/bip39-word/donate/)[ #523 donor ](/bip39-word/donor/)[ #524 door ](/bip39-word/door/)[ #525 dose ](/bip39-word/dose/)[ #526 double ](/bip39-word/double/) 

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

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