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title: "BIP39 Word #806: gorilla — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/gorilla/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #806 01100100101 

# gorilla — BIP39 word #806

"**gorilla**" is word #806 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [goose](/bip39-word/goose/) and [gospel](/bip39-word/gospel/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `01100100101`, decimal index 805\. 

/ɡəˈrɪlə/  · _noun:_ the largest ape, a powerful animal living in tropical forests 

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

## Binary Representation

Five 1-bits and six 0-bits; 462 of the 2048 indexes have exactly five 1-bits.

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

[tool](/bip39-word/tool/)[caution](/bip39-word/caution/)[dwarf](/bip39-word/dwarf/)[input](/bip39-word/input/)[hole](/bip39-word/hole/)[gaze](/bip39-word/gaze/)[grit](/bip39-word/grit/)[grant](/bip39-word/grant/)[goddess](/bip39-word/goddess/)[gossip](/bip39-word/gossip/)[goose](/bip39-word/goose/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x325

4-Letter Prefix

gori

## About "gorilla" in BIP39

- "gorilla" has 7 letters, but the first three, **"gor"**, already identify it, because **"go"** also begins 9 other words, among them [goat](/bip39-word/goat/), [goddess](/bip39-word/goddess/), [gold](/bip39-word/gold/) and [good](/bip39-word/good/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.
- **"gori"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins gorille in the [French list](/french/) and gorila in the [Spanish list](/spanish/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
- "gorilla" appears in one of the 24 official English [test vectors](https://github.com/trezor/python-mnemonic/blob/master/vectors.json) of BIP39: vector #18 (word 4 of 24). Every official vector passes the [checksum checker](/bip39-checksum-checker/), and [How BIP39 works](/how-bip39-works/) shows how the entropy turns into such words.

Official test vector #18

[panda](/bip39-word/panda/) [eyebrow](/bip39-word/eyebrow/) [bullet](/bip39-word/bullet/) gorilla [call](/bip39-word/call/) [smoke](/bip39-word/smoke/) [muffin](/bip39-word/muffin/) [taste](/bip39-word/taste/) [mesh](/bip39-word/mesh/) [discover](/bip39-word/discover/) [soft](/bip39-word/soft/) [ostrich](/bip39-word/ostrich/) [alcohol](/bip39-word/alcohol/) [speed](/bip39-word/speed/) [nation](/bip39-word/nation/) [flash](/bip39-word/flash/) [devote](/bip39-word/devote/) [level](/bip39-word/level/) [hobby](/bip39-word/hobby/) [quick](/bip39-word/quick/) [inner](/bip39-word/inner/) [drive](/bip39-word/drive/) [ghost](/bip39-word/ghost/) [inside](/bip39-word/inside/) 

## Word #806 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) makak 

[French](/french/) femme 

[Italian](/italian/) ignorato 

[Japanese](/japanese/) じてん 

[Korean](/korean/) 생물 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) fantoche 

[Spanish](/spanish/) golfo 

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

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "G"

[ #802 goddess ](/bip39-word/goddess/)[ #803 gold ](/bip39-word/gold/)[ #804 good ](/bip39-word/good/)[ #805 goose ](/bip39-word/goose/)[ #807 gospel ](/bip39-word/gospel/)[ #808 gossip ](/bip39-word/gossip/)[ #809 govern ](/bip39-word/govern/)[ #810 gown ](/bip39-word/gown/) 

[View all words starting with "G" ](/bip39-words/g/) 

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