roller shutter

noun

"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

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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 roller shutter
PropertyValue
Headwordroller shutter
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “roller shutter” in English

roller shuttersits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

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

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

  1. 1
    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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. [...] 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "roller shutter"?
"roller shutter" is spelled R-O-L-L-E-R- -S-H-U-T-T-E-R.
What does "roller shutter" mean?
As a noun, "roller shutter" means: 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.
What language does "roller shutter" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list