Definitions
Etymologies
- From German echt ("real"). (Wiktionary)
- German, from Middle High German, from Middle Low German echte; akin to Old High German ēohaft, customary. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The Quenya combination ht has the sound of cht, as in German echt, acht: e.g. in the name Telumehtar ‘Orion’.”
“It had the look of a number of NYC places that are legendary for their longevity, modesty, old world ways and "echt" quotient.”
“Fazit Swing Integriert in Java, gute Basis für Applikationen "Fühlt" sich nicht "echt" an Viele zusätzliche Bibliotheken und Widgets (swing-lab, JGoodies) SWT / JFace Native widgets und performance Extrem viele standard Widgets, profitiert von Eclipse Qt Cool Stuff Folie 15 Java GUI Toolkits - Swing vs SWT vs Jambi >”
“Ik ben daar na 13 jaar spelen echt heel makkelijk in geworden, als ik er geen lol vind in het spelletje dan kap ik ermee.”
“Als je een beetje vastloopt in het migraine verhaal en de pillen werken niet meer echt, dan raadt Gijs echt de hoofdpijnpoli aan.”
“Nu heeft hij imigran neusspray en voor de echt heftige aanvallen een prikpen.”
“En als ik ergens iets vind wat ik echt niet mooi meer vind ten opzichte van de kostuums die ik nu maak geef ik het weg aan een vereniging.”
“Ook worden mijn kostuums steeds beter qua kwaliteit en ontwerp, dus ik zou de jurken van zeg 5 jaar geleden echt niet meer aandoen.”
“Mensen die echt geinteresseerd zijn weten ons meestal wel te vinden, en aan mensen die alleen maar nieuwsgierig zijn heb ik helemaal geen behoefte.”
“Keystick Keyboard is pas echt draagbaar | Gadget Garden”
None Bacteria Project Keystick â Folding Keyboard by Yoonsang Kim & Eunsung Park » Yanko Design
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘echt’.
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sdamle1
echt
echt, apocalypse, resurgence, forthright, logorrhea, mercurial, torrid, exorcise, obscure, intrusive, morose, vindictive and 94 more...
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bestiary
agave, incunable, echt, wissenschaft, friscalating, obsolescence, clavier, yajna, ecstatic, casual, protean, hum and 41 more...
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known words
words wot i already knew
antisyzygy, calenture, shill, saudade, sehnsucht, squonk, steganographic, anomie, wiggy, grok, hermeneutics, agrise and 206 more...
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kringlan's Words
fecund, riposte, nebbish, nonpareil, deign, eschew, imbroglio, spelunking, fop, foofaraw, tundra, talon and 128 more...
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Words that were new to me
but now they're not because I looked them up. In cases of polysemy or homography, *of course* it was the oddest meaning that stumped me. ;)
Procrustean bed, idem sonans, hob, backcap, quango, cheap-jack, pantechnicon, churrigueresco, chopfallen, maritorious, supererogation, catimini and 212 more...
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Professional Scrabble Lexicon (TWL)
A myriad of game-changing words every Scrabble addict must have in his arsenal.
Keep in mind that these are all tried-and-true feasibly playable words selected for their handiness, i.e...paragon, pignora, ganef, suttee, origan, ohia, aioli, abasement, lehr, mho, tallow, harelike and 842 more...
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NeoVolt's Words
schadenfreude, serendipity, idiosyncrasy, loess, caducous, vagary, schematic, steeple, licentious, tangential, verisimilitude, vernacular and 385 more...
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Umbersorrow
Intangible, anthropic.
States of being are listed on oofy.njiju, glark, deplore, afterlithe, tagmass, spuriosity, forkful, chelation, oding, ploat, botnet, quedeship and 477 more...
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words
diplopic, dolorous, farrago, surety, scuttlebutt, Arabesque, infarct, neurasthenia, lambent, expurge, univocal, simper and 395 more...
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Not Quite The Real Thang
masquerade, sham, counterfeit, shyster, phoney, bogus, pseudo, artificial, fabricated, mock, concocted, false and 158 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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words from the German
kindergarten, sturm und drang, schadenfreude, zeppelin, blitzkreig, blitz, krieg, panzer, angst, nazi, zeitgeist, doppelganger and 107 more...
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technomom's Words
misology, sacerdotal, omphaloskepsis, jimjams, incunabulum, repose, trecento, chimera, tridecennary, tenebrous, purblind, floruit and 207 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
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german-isch
German, Yiddish & pseudo-German words...
frech, schweinerei, schnibble, wutz, ferkel, kvetch, kibitz, nosh, ditzelfritz, verboten, achtung, neibling and 28 more...
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German Spelling Bee List
need to learn these words!!!!!!!!
angst, haversack, hinterland, streusel, eiderdown, kohlrabi, autobahn, gestalt, gestapo, echt, feldspar, spareribs and 67 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for echt.

sarra No, eeeeecht. It's a fabulous German word that I think I like best to translate as "proper". "Das ist echt Scheiße" = "That's proper shite." as in "a well and truly awful situation".
Current UK slang would translate it as "well", viz. "das ist echt gut" = "that's well good" (innit blud). Jun 14, 2009
bilby Gesundheit? Aug 28, 2008