reroll
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.72 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A situation in the rules of certain dice games where a player is given the option to reroll an undesirable roll of the dice.
Example Sentences
- "to reroll steel"
- "A player who rolls two sixes can reroll the dice for an additional turn."
- "You can reroll if you don't like your character's initial stats."
- "[T]he others worked preparing breakfast and re-rolling swags."
- "Their procedure is to unroll the loop once, trace schedule the two iterations, and then reroll the loop into one."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂- Proto-Indo-European *Hróth₂eh₂der. Proto-Italic *rotā Latin rota Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -ulus Latin rotulader. Latin rotulāre Old French roelerbor. Middle English rollen English roll English reroll From re- + roll.