English language

How to pronounce reckon in English?

Toggle Transcript
Type Words
Synonyms bank, bet, calculate, count, depend, look, rely, swear
Type of trust
Type Words
Synonyms calculate, count on, estimate, figure, forecast
Type of judge, evaluate, pass judgment
Has types allow, take into account
Type Words
Synonyms count
Type of judge, guess, gauge, estimate, approximate


You have to reckon with our opponents.
Type Words
Synonyms guess, imagine, opine, suppose, think
Type of anticipate, expect
Has types suspect
Type Words
Synonyms consider, regard, see, view
Type of consider, think, believe, conceive
Has types view as, deem, abstract, prise, prize, disesteem, disrespect, treasure, like, make, respect, take for, expect, call, capitalise, favor, favour, appreciate, value, capitalize, hold, idealise, idealize, identify, include, consider, esteem, receive, reconsider, reify, relativise, relativize
Verb group see, construe, interpret
Type Words
Synonyms calculate, cipher, compute, cypher, figure, work out
Type of reason
Has types subtract, add, add together, approximate, average, average out, budget, capitalise, capitalize, deduct, differentiate, divide, estimate, extract, extrapolate, factor, factor in, factor out, fraction, gauge, guess, integrate, interpolate, judge, miscalculate, misestimate, multiply, process, prorate, quantise, quantize, recalculate, resolve, solve, survey, take off
Verb group work out
Derivation reckoner, reckoning

Examples of reckon

reckon
Analysts reckon the Indian entertainment market is growing by about 14pc a year.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The two partners reckon the social business should break even within five years.
From the economist.com
Richard is a massively underrated guitarist and I reckon has a big future ahead.
From the guardian.co.uk
Its poor form and I reckon Peel should encourage the player to refund the money.
From the au.news.yahoo.com
As for your last comment on confidence and equality, I reckon you must be a man.
From the independent.co.uk
I reckon as long as you don't do things to excess you are okay with most things.
From the independent.co.uk
Next fuel station visit, I reckon, though this chore is an easy task to put off.
From the cars.uk.msn.com
Also I reckon it's just the motion of massaging rather than which cream you use.
From the style.uk.msn.com
Many involved in the scene reckon it suits the modern short attention span well.
From the independent.co.uk
More examples
  • Think: expect, believe, or suppose; "I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel"; "I thought to find her in a bad state"; "he didn't think to find her in the kitchen"; "I guess she is angry at me for standing her up"
  • Calculate: judge to be probable
  • See: deem to be; "She views this quite differently from me"; "I consider her to be shallow"; "I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do"
  • Calculate: make a mathematical calculation or computation
  • Count: have faith or confidence in; "you can count on me to help you any time"; "Look to your friends for support"; "You can bet on that!"; "Depend on your family in times of crisis"
  • Take account of; "You have to reckon with our opponents"; "Count on the monsoon"
  • (reckoning) calculation: problem solving that involves numbers or quantities
  • (reckoning) a bill for an amount due
  • Counting is the action of finding the number of elements of a finite set of objects. The traditional way of counting consists of continually increasing a (mental or spoken) counter by a unit for every element of the set, in some order, while marking (or displacing) those elements to avoid ...