Beckon vs. Reckon — What's the Difference?

To signal or summon, as by nodding or waving.

To count or compute

To attract because of an inviting or enticing appearance

To consider as being; regard as

To make a signaling or summoning gesture.

To think or conclude

To be inviting or enticing.

To expect or intend (to do something)

A gesture of summons.

To make a calculation; figure.

(ambitransitive) To wave or nod to somebody with the intention to make the person come closer.

Chiefly South & South Midland To think or believe

(ambitransitive) To seem attractive and inviting

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

A sign made without words; a beck.

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

A children's game similar to hide and seek in which children who have been "caught" may escape if they see another hider beckon to them.

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

To make a significant sign to; hence, to summon, as by a motion of the hand.

(colloquial) To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause

A sign made without words; a beck.

To 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

Signal with the hands or nod;

(intransitive) To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.

Appear inviting;

To 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.

Summon with a wave, nod, or some other gesture

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

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

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

To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; - followed by an objective clause; as, I reckon he won't try that again.

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

To come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.

Expect, believe, or suppose;

Judge to be probable

Deem to be;

Make a mathematical calculation or computation

Have faith or confidence in;

Take account of;