scroll
\skʁɔl\
The verdict
“scroll” is uncommon French (frequency #62,626 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,626
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Type de compresseur mécanique en forme de spirale double.
Corpus desk
Index FR-scroll · scroll · French
scroll · rank #62,626 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,626
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH scholl
Nearest frequency peer: scholl (-2 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « scroll »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- savouré
savouré
37,379 corpus weight
- schelling
schelling
37,378 corpus weight
- scholl
scholl
37,377 corpus weight
- scroll
scroll
37,375 corpus weight
- seco
seco
37,373 corpus weight
- Seiji
Seiji
37,372 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « scroll » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scroll |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \skʁɔl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,626 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « scroll » en français
Rare enough to double-check
scroll is uncommon French at frequency #62,626 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \skʁɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for scroll, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is scroll, spelled S-C-R-O-L-L.
Definition
- 1Type de compresseur mécanique en forme de spirale double.
- 2Sorte d’excentrique utilisé dans les commandes mécaniques des machines-outils.
- 3Défilement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how scroll appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur cet arbre sont fixés les deux scrolls 147-147’ et le contre-scroll 148 de rentrée, qui sont des sortes d’excentriques à gorges, dans lesquels passent des câbles qui sont reliés au chariot ….
Synonyms
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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