echt
/ɛkt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.84 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
name
A small village at a crossroads in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref SJ7305).
name
A town in Echt-Susteren municipality, Limburg province, Netherlands.
Example Sentences
- "I had heard [the phrase] in Lamb House, Rye, but it was less echt Henry James than Henry James mocking echt Meredith."
- "And yes, that's what it's about. Some punk writing about sleeping with Ginsberg, despite their fifty-year age difference and homogenous sexuality. What's echt heebish? There's your answer. A hack fag poet and the power to plant him on playlists nationwide."
- "An echt Burkean with a snob’s disdain for the contemporary Republican Party, Hart hinted at a road not taken[…]."
Etymology
Borrowed from German echt (“real”). The German term originates from Middle Low German echt (“lawful, genuine”), contraction of ehacht, variant form of ehaft (“lawful, pertaining to the law”) from ê(e) (“law, marriage”), from Proto-West Germanic *aiw. First use in English appears c. 1916.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: echt, *aiw
Inflected Forms
more echt (comparative)
most echt (superlative)