scroll
[skʁɔl]
The verdict
“scroll” is uncommon German (frequency #58,283 among 107,600 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,283
- frequency rank, German
- 107,600
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs scrollen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scroll |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [skʁɔl] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #58,283 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “scroll” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
scroll is uncommon German at frequency #58,283 among 107,600 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [skʁɔl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs scrollen".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for scroll, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is scroll, spelled S-C-R-O-L-L.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs scrollen
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “scroll”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-C-R-O-L-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.