reck
Verb
Verb Forms: recked, recking, recks
- To be concerned about; to care for or heed.
- To take account of (someone or something); to care for; to consider, to heed, to regard.
- To want (to do something); to desire to, to be inclined to, to care to.
- To know about, to know of, to be aware of.
- To reckon, to consider, to regard (someone or something) as.
- To concern (someone); to be important or of interest to; to matter.
- To concern oneself, to trouble oneself.
Examples
- He didn’t reck the warnings about playing against the Scrabble champion, much to his regret.
- It recks not!
Origin / 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”).
Scrabble Score: 10
reck: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordreck: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
reck: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary