rolling stone
"rolling-stone" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rolling stone” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person who moves around a lot and never settles down; a vagrant.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rolling-stone · rolling stone · English
rolling stone · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 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 | rolling stone |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “rolling stone” in English
Rare enough to double-check
rolling stone is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for rolling stone, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From the proverb a rolling stone gathers no moss. The correct English form is rolling stone, spelled R-O-L-L-I-N-G- -S-T-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1A person who moves around a lot and never settles down; a vagrant.
- 2A womanizer.
- 3A geological phenomenon where rocks move and inscribe long tracks along a smooth valley floor without animal or human intervention.
- 4A meteoroid.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rolling stone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Before that they had been a good deal on the move, trekking about after the white man, who was one of those rolling stones that keep going round after a soft job.
How does it feel To be on your own With no direction home Like a complete unknown Like a rolling stone?
Etymology
From the proverb a rolling stone gathers no moss.
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.