duty roster

noun

"duty-roster" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“duty roster” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
11
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A schedule of tasks assigned to members of a team

Corpus desk

Index EN-duty-roster · duty roster · English

duty roster · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "D" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Key facts for duty roster
PropertyValue
Headwordduty roster
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “duty roster” in English

duty rosterranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

duty roster is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A schedule of tasks assigned to members of a team".

duty roster doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is duty roster, spelled D-U-T-Y- -R-O-S-T-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    A schedule of tasks assigned to members of a team

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how duty roster appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Current duty roster shows you are assigned to the Pathfinder mission team, Specialist Ryder.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "duty roster"?
"duty roster" is spelled D-U-T-Y- -R-O-S-T-E-R.
What does "duty roster" mean?
As a noun, "duty roster" means: A schedule of tasks assigned to members of a team
What language does "duty roster" come from?
"duty roster" is a English word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list