# stroll

> English word · Noun · IPA /stɹəʊl/ · frequency rank #14,232

## Definitions
1. A wandering on foot; an idle and leisurely walk; a ramble; a saunter.
2. A dance of the 1950s in which dancers leisurely stepped, cross-stepped, and dipped at the knee to the beat of the music.

## Etymology
Borrowed from German strollen, a variant of Alemannic German strolchen, from Strolch (“vagabond; rascal”).

## Easily confused with
- **strong** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stroll-vs-strong)
- **Stroud** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stroll-vs-stroud)
- **strove** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stroll-vs-strove)
- **stroller** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stroll-vs-stroller)
- **strolled** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stroll-vs-strolled)
- **still** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/still-vs-stroll)
- **stole** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stole-vs-stroll)
- **stall** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stall-vs-stroll)
- **stool** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stool-vs-stroll)
- **Stoll** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stoll-vs-stroll)
- **stroke** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stroke-vs-stroll)
- **scroll** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scroll-vs-stroll)
- **shrill** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shrill-vs-stroll)
- **strode** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/strode-vs-stroll)
- **strobe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/strobe-vs-stroll)

## Common misspellings (8)
`srtoll`, `sstroll`, `storll`, `strlol`, `strol`, `strroll`, `sttroll`, `tsroll`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/stroll