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How to spell roll

What it means: To move by turning over and over.

In a sentence: The ball will roll down the hill. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for double l. Often misspelled as rol or role.

Sounds like, but is not: role. Same sound, different spelling and meaning.

Same family: enroll, enrollment, roll-call, roster, list. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Roll comes from Old French “rolle,” meaning a scroll of parchment, which was used to keep lists of names. That’s why even today a list of people’s names, especially for a class or group, is still called a roll.

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