reck
/ɹɛk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.13 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To take account of (someone or something); to care for; to consider, to heed, to regard.
Archaic; Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, / Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, / Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine, / Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, / And recks not his own rede."
- "[…]with that care lost / went all his fear: of God, or hell, or worse / he recked not[…]"
- "Little thou reck'st of this sad store! Would thou might never reck them more!"
- "She recks not now, as of old, whether her word carries with it the sting or the sweet—it is not now in her thought to ask whether pain or pleasure follows the thoughtless slight or the scornful pleasantry. The victim suffers, but she recks not of his grief."
- "She knows us not, nor recks if she enthrall With voice and eyes and fashion of her hair […]"
- "Little recked he perhaps for what she felt, that dull aching void in her heart sometimes, piercing to the core."
Etymology
From Middle English recken, rekken, reken, from Old Norse rœkja (compare Old English rēċċan, rēċan (“to care, reck, take care of, be interested in, care for, desire”); whence English retch), from Proto-Germanic *rōkijaną (“to care, take care”), from Proto-Indo-European *rēǵ-, *rēg- (“to care, help”). Cognate with obsolete Dutch roeken, Low German roken, ruken (“to reck, care”), German geruhen (“to deign, condescend”), Icelandic rækja (“to care, regard, discharge”), Danish røgte (“to care, tend”), Swedish rykta (“to groom”). See reckon.