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echt^¹

/ɛkt/

Rhymes with -ɛkt

Where it comes from

Borrowed from German echt (“real”). The German term originates from Middle Low German echt (“lawful, genuine”), contraction of ehacht, variant form of ehaft (“lawful, pertaining to the law”) from ê(e) (“law, marriage”), from Proto-West Germanic *aiw. First use in English appears c. 1916.

adjective more echt · most echt

Proper, real, genuine, true to type. I had heard [the phrase] in Lamb House, Rye, but it was less echt Henry James than Henry James mocking echt Meredith.

Echt^²

proper noun

A small village at a crossroads in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref SJ7305).
A town in Echt-Susteren municipality, Limburg province, Netherlands.

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adj genuine

Español	verdadero
Deutsch	echt

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@misc{echt_2026,
  title = {echt},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/echt},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}