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title: "BIP39 Word #1542: scheme — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/scheme/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1542 11000000101 

# scheme — BIP39 word #1542

"**scheme**" is word #1542 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [scene](/bip39-word/scene/) and [school](/bip39-word/school/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `11000000101`, decimal index 1541\. 

/skiːm/  · _noun:_ a large-scale plan, or a secret plan to do something wrong 

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

## Binary Representation

Four 1-bits and seven 0-bits; 330 of the 2048 indexes have exactly four 1-bits.

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

[doll](/bip39-word/doll/)[level](/bip39-word/level/)[thing](/bip39-word/thing/)[spawn](/bip39-word/spawn/)[silly](/bip39-word/silly/)[seven](/bip39-word/seven/)[section](/bip39-word/section/)[script](/bip39-word/script/)[scan](/bip39-word/scan/)[science](/bip39-word/science/)[scene](/bip39-word/scene/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x605

4-Letter Prefix

sche

## About "scheme" in BIP39

- "scheme" has 6 letters, but the first four, **"sche"**, already identify it, because **"sch"** also begins [school](/bip39-word/school/).
- **"sche"** is unique only within the English list: it also begins scheda in the [Italian list](/italian/), so a four-letter backup should say which list it uses.
- "scheme" appears in one of the 24 official English [test vectors](https://github.com/trezor/python-mnemonic/blob/master/vectors.json) of BIP39: vector #16 (word 1 of 12). 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 #16

scheme [spot](/bip39-word/spot/) [photo](/bip39-word/photo/) [card](/bip39-word/card/) [baby](/bip39-word/baby/) [mountain](/bip39-word/mountain/) [device](/bip39-word/device/) [kick](/bip39-word/kick/) [cradle](/bip39-word/cradle/) [pact](/bip39-word/pact/) [join](/bip39-word/join/) [borrow](/bip39-word/borrow/) 

## Word #1542 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) sledovat 

[French](/french/) prélude 

[Italian](/italian/) sarto 

[Japanese](/japanese/) はいち 

[Korean](/korean/) 제주도 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) pote 

[Spanish](/spanish/) ración 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Read aloud, "scheme" /skiːm/ is one sound away from this word: 

[ski /skiː/](/bip39-word/ski/) 

Words sharing the first three letters "sch":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "S"

[ #1538 scan ](/bip39-word/scan/)[ #1539 scare ](/bip39-word/scare/)[ #1540 scatter ](/bip39-word/scatter/)[ #1541 scene ](/bip39-word/scene/)[ #1543 school ](/bip39-word/school/)[ #1544 science ](/bip39-word/science/)[ #1545 scissors ](/bip39-word/scissors/)[ #1546 scorpion ](/bip39-word/scorpion/) 

[View all words starting with "S" ](/bip39-words/s/) 

## Seed phrase, key and recovery guides

- [BIP-444 (Now BIP 110): Reduced Data Temporary Softfork Explained](/bip-444-reduced-data-temporary-softfork/)
- [Metal Seed Phrase Backup: Steel Plates, Tiles and Tests](/metal-seed-phrase-backup/)
- [Invalid Seed Phrase? How to Find and Fix a Wrong Word (BIP39)](/how-to-fix-seed-phrase-errors/)

[ Full BIP39 Wordlist ](/)