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title: "BIP39 Word #1146: monkey — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/monkey/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1146 10001111001 

# monkey — BIP39 word #1146

"**monkey**" is word #1146 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [monitor](/bip39-word/monitor/) and [monster](/bip39-word/monster/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `10001111001`, decimal index 1145\. 

/ˈmʌŋki/  · _noun:_ an animal related to apes, usually with a long tail and living in trees 

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

## Binary Representation

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

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

[august](/bip39-word/august/)[song](/bip39-word/song/)[quality](/bip39-word/quality/)[palace](/bip39-word/palace/)[mango](/bip39-word/mango/)[menu](/bip39-word/menu/)[minor](/bip39-word/minor/)[mixed](/bip39-word/mixed/)[moral](/bip39-word/moral/)[month](/bip39-word/month/)[monitor](/bip39-word/monitor/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x479

4-Letter Prefix

monk

## About "monkey" in BIP39

- "monkey" has 6 letters, but the first four, **"monk"**, already identify it, because **"mon"** also begins [monitor](/bip39-word/monitor/), [monster](/bip39-word/monster/) and [month](/bip39-word/month/).

## Word #1146 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) otvor 

[French](/french/) limpide 

[Italian](/italian/) ognuno 

[Japanese](/japanese/) たんい 

[Korean](/korean/) 연기 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) lembrete 

[Spanish](/spanish/) millón 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

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

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

Words sharing the first three letters "mon":

[monitor](/bip39-word/monitor/)[monster](/bip39-word/monster/)[month](/bip39-word/month/) 

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "M"

[ #1142 modify ](/bip39-word/modify/)[ #1143 mom ](/bip39-word/mom/)[ #1144 moment ](/bip39-word/moment/)[ #1145 monitor ](/bip39-word/monitor/)[ #1147 monster ](/bip39-word/monster/)[ #1148 month ](/bip39-word/month/)[ #1149 moon ](/bip39-word/moon/)[ #1150 moral ](/bip39-word/moral/) 

[View all words starting with "M" ](/bip39-words/m/) 

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [BIP39 Passphrase: How the 25th Word Creates a Hidden Wallet](/bip39-passphrase/)
- [Is My Seed Phrase Compromised? Signs and What to Do Next](/bip39-seed-phrase-compromise/)
- [BIP 32 Explained: Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets](/bip-32/)

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