unroll

Other forms of unroll

past tense

unrolled·

present participle

unrolling·

third person

unrolls·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about unroll

What does unroll mean?

unroll means "reverse the winding or twisting of". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in unroll?

unroll has 2 syllables: un-roll. The stress falls on "roll". In IPA it is /ˌʌnˈɹoʊl/.

What is another word for unroll?

Close synonyms include unwind, wind off, unfurl. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is unroll a common word?

unroll is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with unroll?

5 words rhyme with unroll. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.