scroll
/skɹoʊl/
"scroll" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“scroll” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #8,854 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #8,854
- frequency rank, English
- 6
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scroll |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /skɹoʊl/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #8,854 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “scroll” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for scroll is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /skɹoʊl/. Corpus data places it at rank #8,854 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for scroll, with forms such as "csroll", "sccroll", and "scorll". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Stoll", "stroll", "shrill", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: 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- … The correct English form is scroll, spelled S-C-R-O-L-L.
Definition
- 1A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll.
- 2An ornament formed of undulations giving off spirals or sprays, usually suggestive of plant form. Roman architectural ornament is largely of some scroll pattern.
- 3Spirals or sprays in the shape of an actual plant.
- 4A 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.
- 5The 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.
- 6A skew surface.
- 7A kind of sweet roll baked in a somewhat spiral shape.
- 8The incremental movement of graphics on a screen, removing one portion to show the next.
- 9A spiral waterway placed round a turbine to regulate the flow.
- 10A turbinate bone.
- 11A rough draft of anything.
- 12The act of scrolling
Etymology
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.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: csroll,sccroll,scorll,scrlol,scrol,scrroll,srcoll,sscroll
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of scroll - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “scroll”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-C-R-O-L-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /skɹoʊl/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Stoll” - see the side-by-side comparison. scroll vs Stoll
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.