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title: "BIP39 Word #1545: scissors — Seed Phrase Mnemonic Word"
url: "https://bip39-phrase.com/bip39-word/scissors/"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00"
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Word #1545 11000001000 

# scissors — BIP39 word #1545

"**scissors**" is word #1545 of the 2048 words in the official BIP39 English wordlist, between [science](/bip39-word/science/) and [scorpion](/bip39-word/scorpion/). In a seed phrase it stands for the 11-bit value `11000001000`, decimal index 1544\. 

/ˈsɪzəz/  · _noun:_ a cutting tool with two crossing blades joined in the middle 

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

## Binary Representation

Three 1-bits and eight 0-bits; 165 of the 2048 indexes have exactly three 1-bits.

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

[donate](/bip39-word/donate/)[library](/bip39-word/library/)[three](/bip39-word/three/)[speed](/bip39-word/speed/)[simple](/bip39-word/simple/)[shallow](/bip39-word/shallow/)[seek](/bip39-word/seek/)[scale](/bip39-word/scale/)[screen](/bip39-word/screen/)[scout](/bip39-word/scout/)[scorpion](/bip39-word/scorpion/) 

Position

Hex Index

0x608

4-Letter Prefix

scis

## About "scissors" in BIP39

- "scissors" has 8 letters, but the first four, **"scis"**, already identify it, because **"sci"** also begins [science](/bip39-word/science/).
- "scissors" appears in one of the 24 official English [test vectors](https://github.com/trezor/python-mnemonic/blob/master/vectors.json) of BIP39: vector #23 (word 1 of 18). 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 #23

scissors [invite](/bip39-word/invite/) [lock](/bip39-word/lock/) [maple](/bip39-word/maple/) [supreme](/bip39-word/supreme/) [raw](/bip39-word/raw/) [rapid](/bip39-word/rapid/) [void](/bip39-word/void/) [congress](/bip39-word/congress/) [muscle](/bip39-word/muscle/) [digital](/bip39-word/digital/) [elegant](/bip39-word/elegant/) [little](/bip39-word/little/) [brisk](/bip39-word/brisk/) [hair](/bip39-word/hair/) [mango](/bip39-word/mango/) [congress](/bip39-word/congress/) [clump](/bip39-word/clump/) 

## Word #1545 in the Other 9 BIP39 Wordlists

[Czech](/czech/) slezina 

[French](/french/) prétexte 

[Italian](/italian/) satira 

[Japanese](/japanese/) はえる 

[Korean](/korean/) 제한 

[Portuguese](/portuguese/) povoar 

[Spanish](/spanish/) rama 

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

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

## Similar Words — Check Carefully During Recovery

Words sharing the first three letters "sci":

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

## More BIP39 Words Starting with "S"

[ #1541 scene ](/bip39-word/scene/)[ #1542 scheme ](/bip39-word/scheme/)[ #1543 school ](/bip39-word/school/)[ #1544 science ](/bip39-word/science/)[ #1546 scorpion ](/bip39-word/scorpion/)[ #1547 scout ](/bip39-word/scout/)[ #1548 scrap ](/bip39-word/scrap/)[ #1549 screen ](/bip39-word/screen/) 

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

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