roller shutter
"roller-shutter" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“roller shutter” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A shutter (for a window or door) consisting of a series of horizontal sections that are hinged together and attached to a roller at the top.
Corpus desk
Index EN-roller-shutter · roller shutter · English
roller shutter · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | roller shutter |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “roller shutter” in English
Rare enough to double-check
roller shutter is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A shutter (for a window or door) consisting of a series of horizontal sections that are hinged together and attached to a roller at the top.".
Zero misspellings are on record for roller shutter in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is roller shutter, spelled R-O-L-L-E-R- -S-H-U-T-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1A shutter (for a window or door) consisting of a series of horizontal sections that are hinged together and attached to a roller at the top.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how roller shutter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[...] aluminium is used extensively for cross-partitions, intercommunicating doors and roller shutter doors.
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.