Methods, systems, and devices for scrambling for probabilistic constellation schemes (PCSs) in wireless communications are described. In some examples, a first wireless device may scramble a set of amplitude information bits associated with a transport block for transmission to a second wireless device. In such examples, the first wireless device may perform a distribution matching procedure on the scrambled set of amplitude information bits. The first wireless device may encode the set of distributed amplitude bits and, in some cases, may perform a modulation procedure on the encoded set of distributed amplitude bits in accordance with a PCS scheme to obtain a codeword associated with the transport block. In some examples, the first wireless device may transmit the codeword to the second wireless device.