Reckon vs. Think — What's the Difference?

To count or compute

To have or formulate in the mind

To consider as being; regard as

To reason about or reflect on; ponder

To think or conclude

To decide by reasoning, reflection, or pondering

To expect or intend (to do something)

To judge or regard; look upon

To make a calculation; figure.

To believe; suppose

Chiefly South & South Midland To think or believe

To expect; hope

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

To intend

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 call to mind; remember

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

To visualize; imagine

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

To devise or evolve; invent

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

To bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation

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

To concentrate one's thoughts on; keep as a point of focus

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.

To exercise the power of reason, as by conceiving ideas, drawing inferences, and using judgment

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

To consider or weigh an idea

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 bring a thought to mind by using the imagination

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

To recall a thought or an image to mind

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 have a belief, supposition, or opinion

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

To have care or consideration

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.

To use the mind in a certain way

Expect, believe, or suppose;

Requiring much thought to create or assimilate

Judge to be probable

The act or an instance of deliberate or extended thinking; a meditation.

Deem to be;

(transitive) To ponder, to go over in one's head.

Make a mathematical calculation or computation

(intransitive) To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.

Have faith or confidence in;

(intransitive) To conceive of something or someone (usually followed by of; infrequently, by on).

Take account of;

(transitive) To be of opinion (that); to consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.

(transitive) To guess; to reckon.

To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something).

To presume; to venture.

To seem, to appear.

An act of thinking; consideration (of something).

To seem or appear; - used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.

To employ any of the intellectual powers except that of simple perception through the senses; to exercise the higher intellectual faculties.

To call anything to mind; to remember; as, I would have sent the books, but I did not think of it.

To reflect upon any subject; to muse; to meditate; to ponder; to consider; to deliberate.

To form an opinion by reasoning; to judge; to conclude; to believe; as, I think it will rain to-morrow.

To purpose; to intend; to design; to mean.

To presume; to venture.

To conceive; to imagine.

To plan or design; to plot; to compass.

To believe; to consider; to esteem.

Act of thinking; a thought.

An instance of deliberate thinking;

Judge or regard; look upon; judge;

Expect, believe, or suppose;

Use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments;

Recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection;

Imagine or visualize;

Focus one's attention on a certain state;

Have in mind as a purpose;

Decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting;

Ponder; reflect on, or reason about;

Dispose the mind in a certain way;

Have or formulate in the mind;

Be capable of conscious thought;

Bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation;