# count

> English word · Verb · IPA /kaʊnt/ · frequency rank #1,557

## Definitions
1. To recite numbers in sequence.
2. To determine the number of (objects in a group).
3. To amount to, to number in total.
4. To be of significance; to matter; to be considered (as something); to be included (of something).
5. To be an example of something: often followed by as and an indefinite noun.
6. To consider something as an example of something or as having some quality; to account, to regard as.
7. To reckon in, to include in consideration.
8. To take account or note (of), to care (for).
9. To recount, to tell.
10. To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.

## Etymology
From Middle English counten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman conter, from Old French conter (“add up; tell a story”), from Latin computō (“I compute”). In this sense, displaced native Old English tellan, whence Modern English tell. Doublet of compute.
Compare typologically reckon, Russian счита́ть (sčitátʹ), счита́ться (sčitátʹsja); the semantic evolution to Mongolian санах (sanax).

## Easily confused with
- **cut** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/count-vs-cut)
- **cult** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/count-vs-cult)
- **coup** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/count-vs-coup)
- **cunt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/count-vs-cunt)
- **curt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/count-vs-curt)
- **cour** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/count-vs-cour)
- **cuny** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/count-vs-cuny)
- **court** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/count-vs-court)
- **crust** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/count-vs-crust)
- **coupe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/count-vs-coupe)
- **cunts** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/count-vs-cunts)
- **coups** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/count-vs-coups)
- **covet** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/count-vs-covet)
- **coyne** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/count-vs-coyne)
- **cours** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/count-vs-cours)
- **county** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/count-vs-county)
- **courts** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/count-vs-courts)
- **counts** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/count-vs-counts)
- **covent** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/count-vs-covent)
- **Coutts** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/count-vs-coutts)

## Common misspellings (7)
`ccount`, `conut`, `counnt`, `countt`, `coutn`, `cuont`, `ocunt`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/count