reckoning
/ˈɹɛkənɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.28 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "By that reckoning, it would take six weeks to go five miles."
- "So saying, he called for a reckoning for the wine, and throwing down the price of the additional bottle which he had himself introduced, rose as if to take leave of us."
- "When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, and her pretty little Alsatian maid beside her, laying a log across the andirons."
- "day of reckoning"
- "My mother's father was a small-town school teacher, an occupation with somewhat more status (teachers are petit bourgeois by the standard reckoning) which nevertheless provided little more income than on my father's side."
- "The research presented in this paper is the most comprehensive and up-to-date reckoning of an expanding set of portmanteau terms based on the word English."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈɹɛkənɪŋ/