roll up
"roll-up" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“roll up” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To make something into a particular shape, especially cylindrical or fold-like.
Corpus desk
Index EN-roll-up · roll up · English
roll up · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roll up |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “roll up” in English
Rare enough to double-check
roll up is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for roll up, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: The "arrive by vehicle" sense involves the notion of being on wheels (or, similarly, on tank treads); it is conceptually coordinate with walk up as in "approach"; thus, both can take to as preposition (e.g., roll up to, walk up to, belly up to). The correct English form is roll up, spelled R-O-L-L- -U-P.
Definition
- 1To make something into a particular shape, especially cylindrical or fold-like.
- 2To make something into a particular shape, especially cylindrical or fold-like.
- 3To make something into a particular shape, especially cylindrical or fold-like.
- 4To raise (a car window, rolling door, or rolling security barrier).
- 5To roll the dice necessary to create a character for a game, especially a role-playing game.
- 6To arrive by vehicle, usually by car.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how roll up appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The shopkeeper had to roll up the poster to make it easier to carry.
When they told you not to fold, spindle, or mutilate a punchcard, the spindling referred to rolling it up.
Etymology
The "arrive by vehicle" sense involves the notion of being on wheels (or, similarly, on tank treads); it is conceptually coordinate with walk up as in "approach"; thus, both can take to as preposition (e.g., roll up to, walk up to, belly up to).
This word in other languages
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.