reckon
/ˈɹɛkən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.76 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.
verb
To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause
Colloquial
verb
To reckon with something or somebody or not, i.e. to reckon without something or somebody: to take into account, deal with, consider or not, i.e. to misjudge, ignore, not take into account, not deal with, not consider or fail to consider; e.g. reckon without one's host
Example Sentences
- "then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain"
- "I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church."
- "For all the king counted and pointed and reckoned, he could not find as much as a hair of them missing."
- "He was reckoned among the transgressors"
- "For him I reckon not in high estate Whom long descent of birth, Or the sphere of fortune, raises"
- "[…] faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness."
Etymology
From Middle English rekenen, from Old English recenian (“to pay; arrange, dispose, reckon”) and ġerecenian (“to explain, recount, relate”); both from Proto-West Germanic *rekanōn (“to count, explain”), from Proto-West Germanic *rekan (“swift, ready, prompt”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to make straight or right”). Cognate with Scots rekkin (“to enumerate, mention, narrate, rehearse, count, calculate, compute”), Saterland Frisian reekenje (“to calculate, figure, reckon”), West Frisian rekkenje (“to account, tally, calculate, figure”), Dutch rekenen (“to count, calculate, reckon, charge”), German Low German reken (“to reckon”), German rechnen (“to count, reckon, calculate”), Danish regne (“to calculate”), Swedish räkna (“to count, calculate, reckon”), Norwegian Nynorsk rekna (“to calculate”), Icelandic reikna (“to calculate”), Latin rectus (“straight, right”). See also reck, reach.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *h₃reǵ-, rekenen, recenian, *rekanōn, *rekan