--- title: "BIP39 Word #965: joy — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word" url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/joy/" language: "en" updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00" --- Word #965 01111000100 # joy — BIP39 word #965 "**joy**" is word #965 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [journey](/bip39-word/journey/) and [judge](/bip39-word/judge/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `01111000100`, decimal index 964\. /ʤɔɪ/ · _noun:_ a feeling of great happiness and pleasure [Russian](/ru/ "The BIP39 wordlist with Russian translations"): радость ## 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): [weasel](/bip39-word/weasel/)[decade](/bip39-word/decade/)[flat](/bip39-word/flat/)[hammer](/bip39-word/hammer/)[identify](/bip39-word/identify/)[lady](/bip39-word/lady/)[kind](/bip39-word/kind/)[kangaroo](/bip39-word/kangaroo/)[job](/bip39-word/job/)[juice](/bip39-word/juice/)[judge](/bip39-word/judge/) Position Hex Index 0x3C4 4-Letter Prefix joy ## About "joy" in BIP39 - It takes all three letters to identify "joy": **"jo"** also begins [job](/bip39-word/job/), [join](/bip39-word/join/), [joke](/bip39-word/joke/) and [journey](/bip39-word/journey/). Three letters are enough for only 604 of the 2048 words. ## Word #965 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists [Czech](/czech/) nerost [French](/french/) hanneton [Italian](/italian/) mancia [Japanese](/japanese/) せんい [Korean](/korean/) 시리즈 [Portuguese](/portuguese/) grosso [Spanish](/spanish/) juvenil [Traditional Chinese](/chinese-traditional/) 卷 [Simplified Chinese](/chinese-simplified/) 卷 ## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery 3 BIP39 words differ from "joy" by just a single letter — the most common source of typos when a seed phrase is entered by hand: [boy](/bip39-word/boy/)[job](/bip39-word/job/)[toy](/bip39-word/toy/) Read aloud, "joy" /ʤɔɪ/ is one sound away from these 2 words: [jar /ʤɑː/](/bip39-word/jar/)[join /ʤɔɪn/](/bip39-word/join/) ## More BIP39 Words Starting with "J" [ #961 job ](/bip39-word/job/)[ #962 join ](/bip39-word/join/)[ #963 joke ](/bip39-word/joke/)[ #964 journey ](/bip39-word/journey/)[ #966 judge ](/bip39-word/judge/)[ #967 juice ](/bip39-word/juice/)[ #968 jump ](/bip39-word/jump/)[ #969 jungle ](/bip39-word/jungle/) [View all words starting with "J" ](/bip39-words/j/) ## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides - [BIP85: Derive Many Seed Phrases From One Seed](/bip85/) - [How to View & Recover Bitcoin Wallet.dat Content](/how-to-view-and-recover-bitcoin-wallet-dat-content/) - [Bitcoin Private Key Format: WIF, Base58 and Hex Explained](/private-key-btc/) [ Full BIP39 Wordlist ](/)