scroll
/skɹoʊl/noun, verb
scroll is spelled S-C-R-O-L-L. The wrong spelling people search most is scoll: about 110 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 33 of all searches for the word. Scroll is a noun meaning “A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll”. The plural of scroll is scrolls.
How many letters and syllables are in scroll?
| Letters | 6: S-C-R-O-L-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 7.2 times per million words; the 8,784th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, scoll, about 110 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| 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 do you spell scroll?
Scroll is spelled S-C-R-O-L-L. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 33 of the searches for scroll in either form.
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). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is scroll?
Scroll appears 7.2 times per million words in written English, the 8,784th 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 scroll?
- UK /skɹəʊl/
- US /skɹoʊl/
Scroll has one syllable (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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-scroll.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with scroll?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as scroll 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 scroll
- scrolls plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- scrolling participle, present
- scrolled participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does scroll mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll.
- 2
An ornament formed of undulations giving off spirals or sprays, usually suggestive of plant form. Roman architectural ornament is largely of some scroll pattern.
- 3
Spirals or sprays in the shape of an actual plant.
- 4
A mark or flourish added to a person's signature, intended to represent a seal, and in some States allowed as a substitute for a seal. [U.S.] Alexander Mansfield Burrill.
- 5
The carved end of a violin, viola, cello or other stringed instrument, most commonly scroll-shaped but occasionally in the form of a human or animal head.
- 6
A skew surface.
- 7
A kind of sweet roll baked in a somewhat spiral shape.
I ordered a glass of lemonade and a coffee scroll.
- 8
The incremental movement of graphics on a screen, removing one portion to show the next.
verb
- 1
To change one's view of data on a computer's display by moving in gradual increments, typically using an input device or touch screen.
She scrolled the offending image out of view.
- 2
To move in or out of view horizontally or vertically.
The rising credits slowly scrolled off the screen.
- 3
To continuously and aimlessly consume content on social media, especially on websites or apps with a scrolling feed, such as Instagram, TikTok, or X.
- 4
datedTo flood a chat system with numerous lines of text, causing legitimate messages to scroll out of view before they can be read.
Hey, stop scrolling!
- 5
obsoleteTo draft; to write in rough outline.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Scroll in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | rouleau (de papyrus ou de parchemin), papyrus, volumen, rotulus , volute , faire défiler |
| German | Schriftrolle, Rolle, Buchrolle , Volute, Schnörkel, Spirale |
| Portuguese | pergaminho, rolo , rolar, deslocar |
| Spanish | rollo, pergamino , voluta , desplazarse, desplazar, scrolear |
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 scroll come from?
From Middle English scrowle, scrolle, from earlier scrowe, scrouwe (influenced by Middle English rolle), from Old French escroe, escrowe, escrouwe (“scroll, strip of parchment”), from Frankish *skrōda (“a shred”), from Proto-Germanic *skraudō, from *skrew- (“to cut; cutting tool”), extension of *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Doublet of shred and escrow.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).