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reckon

/ˈɹɛkən/verb, noun

reckon is spelled R-E-C-K-O-N: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 5.8 times per million words in written English, the 10,196th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, reckon means “To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in reckon?

Letters6: R-E-C-K-O-N
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing5.8 times per million words; the 10,196th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is reckon?

Reckon appears 5.8 times per million words in written English, the 10,196th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce reckon?

  • /ˈɹɛkən/

Reckon has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-reckon.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with reckon?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as reckon.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: conker.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of reckon

  • reckons present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • reckoning participle, present
  • reckoned participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does reckon mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

verb

  1. 1

    CommonwealthTo count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

  2. 2

    CommonwealthTo count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.

  3. 3

    CommonwealthTo charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.

  4. 4

    CommonwealthcolloquialTo conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause

    I reckon he won't try that again.

  5. 5

    CommonwealthTo 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

  6. 6

    CommonwealthTo make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.

  7. 7

    CommonwealthTo 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

  1. 1

    CommonwealthinformalAn impression or opinion.

  2. 2

    CommonwealthAlternative form of rackan (“chain”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Reckon in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchcompter, calculer (to count; to enumerate; to number; also, to…), estimer (to count as in a number, rank, or series; to…), considérer (colloquial: to conclude, as by an enumeration…)
Germanberechnen, errechnen, rechnen, ausrechnen, zusammenrechnen (to count; to enumerate; to number; also, to…), zurechnen (to count as in a number, rank, or series; to…)
Portuguesecontar, calcular (to count; to enumerate; to number; also, to…), estimar (to count as in a number, rank, or series; to…), concluir (colloquial: to conclude, as by an enumeration…), julgar, considerar (to charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as…)
Spanishcensar (to count; to enumerate; to number; also, to…), tantear (colloquial: to conclude, as by an enumeration…), saldar, finiquitar (to come to an accounting; to make up accounts…)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does reckon come from?

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”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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