reckon
Plural: reckons
Verb
Verb Forms: reckoned, reckoning, reckons
- To count or compute; to consider or suppose.
- expect, believe, or suppose
- judge to be probable
- deem to be
- make a mathematical calculation or computation
- have faith or confidence in
- take account of
- "You have to reckon with our opponents"
- To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
- 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.
- To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
- To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause
- 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
- To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
- To come to an accounting; to draw up or settle accounts; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.
Noun
- An impression or opinion.
- Alternative form of rackan (“chain”).
Examples
- He had to reckon the potential points for several word placements before deciding.
- I reckon he won't try that again.
- I’ve just heard from the repairman: it's going to cost £1000. I'd reckoned it’d be £500 at most.
Origin / 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”), German Low German reken (“to reckon”), German rechnen (“to count, reckon, calculate”), Danish regne (“to calculate”), Swedish räkna (“to count, calculate, reckon”), Icelandic reikna (“to calculate”), Latin rectus (“straight, right”). See also reck, reach.
Synonyms
bet, calculate, cipher, compute, consider, count, count on, cypher, depend, estimate, figure, forecast, guess, imagine, look, opine, regard, see, suppose, think, view, work out, believe, enumerate, esteem, number, rate, value
Scrabble Score: 12
reckon: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordreckon: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
reckon: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary