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enroll

/ɛnˈɹoʊl/verb

enroll is spelled E-N-R-O-L-L: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 2.8 times per million words in written English, the 16,005th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “enrol vs enroll” about 2,400 times a month (Google, United States). As a verb, enroll means “To enter (a name, etc.) in a register, roll or list” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in enroll?

Letters6: E-N-R-O-L-L
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing2.8 times per million words; the 16,005th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is enroll?

Enroll appears 2.8 times per million words in written English, the 16,005th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce enroll?

  • UK /ɪnˈɹəʊl/
  • US /ɛnˈɹoʊl/
  • US /ɪnˈɹoʊl/

Enroll has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-enroll.ogg, EN-AU_ck1_enrol.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with enroll

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

enrol vs enroll2,400 G

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with enroll?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as enroll from its last stressed vowel (/oʊl/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of enroll

  • enrolls present, singular, he/she/it
  • enrolling participle, present
  • enrolled participle, past
  • enrol UK
  • enroule
  • enrowle
  • inrol
  • inroll
  • inroule
  • inrowle

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does enroll mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

verb

  1. 1

    To enter (a name, etc.) in a register, roll or list

  2. 2

    To enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of.

    They were eager to enroll new recruits.

  3. 3

    To enlist oneself (in something) or become a member (of something).

    Have you enrolled in classes yet for this term?

  4. 4

    To register as a member of an educational institution.

  5. 5

    USTo register for a class or course of study.

  6. 6

    AustraliaTo register to vote.

  7. 7

    obsoleteTo envelop; to enwrap.

  8. 8

    To curl up into a ball.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Enroll in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchs'inscrire, s'enrôler (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list), enrôler (to enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member…)
Germananmelden, einschreiben, sich immatrikulieren (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list), immatrikulieren, (jmd.) eintragen, (als Mitglied) aufnehmen (to enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member…)
Portugueseinscrever-se, matricular-se (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list), inscrever, alistar (to enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member…)
Spanishenrolar (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does enroll come from?

From Middle English enrollen, from Anglo-Norman enroller; by surface analysis, en- + roll.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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