reckoner

Other forms of reckoner

plural

reckoners·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about reckoner

What does reckoner mean?

reckoner means "an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in reckoner?

reckoner has 3 syllables: rec-ko-ner. The stress falls on "rec".

What is another word for reckoner?

Close synonyms include calculator, figurer, estimator, computer, ready reckoner. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is reckoner a common word?

reckoner is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.