Other forms: rechecked, rechecking
To recheck is to check something a second time. Recheck the figures, rechecked the door, recheck before sending.
The value of it is real and limited: a second pass by the same person catches far less than a second pass by a different one, because you re-read what you meant rather than what you wrote. Rechecking under time pressure catches least of all. Note that the re- means again.
1verbrecheckTo check something a second time.
“Before you hand in the test, recheck your answers for silly mistakes.”
recheck is a checking again.
Middle English
chek
English
check
English, today
recheck
From re- + check. check comes from Middle English chek. From Middle English chek,chekke, borrowed from Old French eschec,eschek,eschac, from Medieval Latin scaccus, borrowed from Arabic شَاه (“king or check at chess, shah”), borrowed from fa-cls شَاه (“king”), from pal 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠, from peo 𐏋 (“king”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian kšáyati (“he rules, he has power over”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European tek- (“to gain power over, gain control over”). Compare stq Schak, Schach, Dutch schaak, German Schach, Danish skak, Swedish schack, Icelandic skák, French échec, Italian scacco. a doublet of chess and shah, from the same source, as well as thig, which derives from the Germanic cognate.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA