reckon
/ˈɹɛkən/
"reckon" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“reckon” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #10,267. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,267
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
Corpus desk
Index EN-reckon · reckon · English
reckon · rank #10,267 · 9 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,267
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH recycling
Nearest frequency peer: recycling (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “reckon”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- protocols
protocols
89,738 corpus weight
- queer
queer
89,736 corpus weight
- reckon
reckon
89,734 corpus weight
- recycling
recycling
89,733 corpus weight
- restriction
restriction
89,732 corpus weight
- resumed
resumed
89,731 corpus weight
What this shows “reckon” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reckon |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈɹɛkən/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #10,267 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “reckon”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around reckon (IPA /ˈɹɛkən/), averb. Corpus frequency is #10,267 among 3,094 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for reckon, with forms such as "erckon", "rcekon", and "recckon". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "recon", "region", "rector", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: 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”… The correct English form is reckon, spelled R-E-C-K-O-N.
Definition
- 1To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
- 2To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.
- 3To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
- 4To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause
- 5To 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
- 6To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
- 7To 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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how reckon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain
I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church.
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, charge”), 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.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erckon
- rcekon
- recckon
- reckkon
- reckno
- reckonn
- recokn
- rekcon
- rreckon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of reckon - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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