unroll
verb
unroll is spelled U-N-R-O-L-L: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 69,884th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, unroll means “To straighten something that has been rolled, twisted or curled” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in unroll?
| Letters | 6: U-N-R-O-L-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 5 million words; the 69,884th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
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).
How common is unroll?
Unroll appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 69,884th 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 unroll?
Unroll has 2 syllables (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-unroll.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of unroll
- unrolls present, singular, he/she/it
- unrolling participle, present
- unrolled participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does unroll mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To straighten something that has been rolled, twisted or curled.
Unroll your sleeping bag and spread it on the floor of the tent.
- 2
To emerge, be revealed or become apparent; to unfold.
We will have to see how the events unroll.
- 3
To replace (a loop in a program) with a repetitive sequence of the individual instructions that the loop would carry out, sometimes used as an optimization.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does unroll come from?
From un- + roll.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).