recount means narration, account, description, rendering. It carries an Arena rating of 1449, earned across 2 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, recount ranks #1,654 of 17,123 for Most Malleable Words, #2,353 of 40,250 for Qualifying, #2,594 of 17,116 for Words That Escaped Their Books, #7,595 of 17,114 for Most Satisfying to Say.
recount is pronounced /ɹɪˈkaʊnt/.
Why “recount” is a great word
A detailed narration of events or a secondary tally, especially of votes. From Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French *recunter*, variant of Old French *reconter*, from *re-* (expressing intensive force) + *conter* ("to count, tell a story"). Unlike "narrate," which suggests a structured tale, or "tally," which is purely numerical, to recount is to itemize memory or ballot, presenting each unit for scrutiny. It is the witness's halting voice in a deposition room, the election official's fingers moving under fluorescent hum, and the old soldier's careful reconstruction of a forgotten battle—the human compulsion to number what matters, and to matter what numbers cannot hold.
Etymology
From Old Northern French and Anglo-Norman recunter, variant of Old French reconter.
noun
- Narration, account, description, rendering
- A counting again, as of votes.
verb
- To tell; narrate; to relate in detail.e.g.“The old man recounted the tale of how he caught the big fish.”
- To rehearse; to enumerate.e.g.“to recount one's blessings”
- To count again.
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