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Word entry · 6 letters

reckon

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"Calculate or suppose"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈɹɛkən/Part of speech verbSorted ceknorStarts with REnds with N2 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. expect, believe, or suppose

Word origin

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”).

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • For all the king counted and pointed and reckoned, he could not find as much as a hair of them missing.

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02Figure6 letters

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