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title: "BIP39 Word #853: hedgehog — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/hedgehog/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #853 01101010100 

# hedgehog — BIP39 word #853

"**hedgehog**" is word #853 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [heavy](/bip39-word/heavy/) and [height](/bip39-word/height/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `01101010100`, decimal index 852\. 

/ˈhɛʤhɒɡ/  · _noun:_ a small animal active at night, with a back covered in sharp spines 

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

## 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):

[tunnel](/bip39-word/tunnel/)[clever](/bip39-word/clever/)[enhance](/bip39-word/enhance/)[kind](/bip39-word/kind/)[glad](/bip39-word/glad/)[hub](/bip39-word/hub/)[hammer](/bip39-word/hammer/)[high](/bip39-word/high/)[head](/bip39-word/head/)[hello](/bip39-word/hello/)[height](/bip39-word/height/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x354

4-Letter Prefix

hedg

## About "hedgehog" in BIP39

- "hedgehog" has 8 letters, but the first three, **"hed"**, already identify it, because **"he"** also begins 10 other words, among them [head](/bip39-word/head/), [health](/bip39-word/health/), [heart](/bip39-word/heart/) and [heavy](/bip39-word/heavy/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words.

## Word #853 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) mixovat 

[French](/french/) forgeron 

[Italian](/italian/) insonnia 

[Japanese](/japanese/) じゅうしょ 

[Korean](/korean/) 성질 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) flutuar 

[Spanish](/spanish/) hazaña 

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

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "H"

[ #849 head ](/bip39-word/head/)[ #850 health ](/bip39-word/health/)[ #851 heart ](/bip39-word/heart/)[ #852 heavy ](/bip39-word/heavy/)[ #854 height ](/bip39-word/height/)[ #855 hello ](/bip39-word/hello/)[ #856 helmet ](/bip39-word/helmet/)[ #857 help ](/bip39-word/help/) 

[View all words starting with "H" ](/bip39-words/h/) 

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