Guess

Definition: Guess

Guess

Noun

1. A message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence.

2. An estimate based on little or no information.

Verb

1. Expect, believe, or suppose; "I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel"; "I thought to find her in a bad state"; "he didn't think to find her in the kitchen"; "I guess she is angry at me for standing her up".

2. Put forward, of a guess; "I am guessing that the price of real estate will rise again".

3. Form an opinion about; judge tentatively; form an estimate of, esp. quantities or time; "I estimate this chicken to weigh at three pounds".

4. Guess correctly; solve by guessing; "He guessed the right number of beans in the jar and won the prize".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "guess" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Literature

Tips from 1870

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Guess

Reasoning,

Verb: judge intuitively, judge by intuition; hazard a proposition, hazard a guess, talk at random.

Supposition

Verb: suppose, conjecture, surmise, suspect, guess, divine; theorize; presume, presurmise, presuppose; assume, fancy, wis, take it; give a guess, speculate, believe, dare say, take it into one's head, take for granted; imagine.

Conjecture; guess, guesswork, speculation; rough guess, shot, shot in the dark; conjecturality; surmise, suspicion, sneaking suspicion; estimate, approximation (nearness).

Crosswords: Guess

Manx (soothsayer, spell, taboo).

It's the same with love I guess. (A Beautiful Mind; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

Um, uh, I guess uh, I guess I'm, uh a non-practicing Jew. (Reality Bites; writing credit: Ben Stiller, written by Helen Childress.)

You know, I think we both wanted to, uh, to be with her. I guess she wanted us to be together (Almost Famous; writing credit: Cameron Crowe)

Honey, guess what - I wrote a song for you this morning (The Jerk; writing credit: Carl Reiner, written by Steve Martin and Carl Gottlieb.)

If I can guess your name in three tries, you have to come have a drink with me tonight (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman)

Looking back i guess (Thank God I Found You; performing artist: 98 Degrees)

When you don't look back I guess (What It Takes; performing artist: Aerosmith)

Everything's ok, so I guess I catch you on the next track (If I Could Go; performing artist: Angie Martinez)

And guess what ("Respect"; performing artist: Aretha Franklin)

She turns on TV, guess who she sees (Sk8er Boi; performing artist: Avril Lavigne)

If someone is standing between you and God, guess who's closer to God. (references; author: unknown)

Guess Who's Coming This Weekend (1973)

Eye Guess (1966)

Guess My Story (1953)

Take a Guess (1953)

Guess Again (1951)

I Guess The Lord Must Be In New York City (performing artist: Richard Barone)

I GUESS I'LL ALWAYS LOVE YOU  (performing artist: Isley Brothers )

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Can You Guess My Name?: Traditional Tales Around the World (reference)

• Guess How Much I Love You? Photo Album [ABRIDGED] (reference)

• Guess What Came to Dinner?: Parasites and Your Health (reference)

• Guess Who Didn't Take a Nap?: A Baby Blues Collection (Baby Blues Scrapbook No 3) (reference)

• Guess Who? (Pat the Bunny) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Mom Guess What! (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Dracula the Dirty Old Man / Guess What Happened to Count Dracula (reference)

• Standard Deviants TV - Dinosaurs, Lifestyles of the Big & Carnivorous (A Day as a Dino / Guess Who's Coming for Dinner?) (reference)

• Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Guess Who's Back (reference)

• The Best of the Guess Who (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Guess Who (Jewel Case) (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Guess which way the prevailing winds are at South Pole Station. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

"At a rough guess I'd say it was water on the knee!". Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Grant to Hayes - I guess that reform bait wont work this side. Better try and anti-Catholic worm. Credit: Library of Congress.

I guess he's going in for a little alimony. Credit: Library of Congress.

Two soft hands on his eyelids press : a laughing voice, who am I? -- guess!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Dame Europa: It'll have to go to the Hague, Sam, I guess. Credit: Library of Congress.

Guess who didn't get invited?. Credit: Library of Congress.

"Man- Ah got a swell idea!! Guess I'll put it in the suggestion box fast" - send yours in today. Credit: Library of Congress.

Doonesbury. Well, guess I better get going ... / G.B. Trudeau. Credit: Library of Congress.

Dust bowl farmer driving tractor with young son, near Cland, New Mexico. "I left cotton growing east of Wichita Falls to come out here to get to grow wheat. (The superior status of wheat over cotton farmers is traditional.) I guess I've made 1000 miles r. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

It is such a pretty charade, my dear, that I can easily guess what fairy brought it.

The money of this island is heavy, gentlemen, but it costs little, as you may guess.

We can guess.

Eugene: I guess there comes a time in everybody's life when you say, "This very moment is the end of my childhood.

But canst thou guess that he doth aim at it

Got to, I guess.

He appeared as tall as an ordinary spire steeple, and took about ten yards at every stride, as near as I could guess.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Menopause wasn’t so bad. I guess there’s nothing else to worry about. (references)

Because sarcoidosis can escape diagnosis or be mistaken for several other diseases, we can only guess at how many people are affected. (references)

Economic History

Egypt

Poorly written specifications may force bidders have to guess what the customer wants. (references)

Philippines

Roto Rooter, Comprehensive Business Services, Computer Assisted Learning, Postnet, Service Master, Computer Tots, Levi's, Wrangler, Calvin Klein, Revlon, Avon, Sara Lee, Anne Klein, Esprit, Guess, and GAP are some of the non-food franchises. (references)

Colombia

Manufacturers and licensees of well-known labels from the U.S. and Europe in the Colombian market are: Luigi, Pierre Cardin, Guy Laroche, Yves Saint Laurent, Nautica, Guess, The Limited, Francois Girbaud, Unlimited, Diesel, Tommy Hilfiger, The Gap, Boss, Liz Claiborne, Structure, Banana Republic, Levi's, Dockers, Arrow, Van Heusen, Express, Pepe, Berkshire, Maidenform, Formfit Rogers, Triumph, Benetton, Vassarette, Peter Pan, and Victoria's Secret. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "guess": a wild guess ♦ at a guess ♦ at a rough guess ♦ begin to guess ♦ by guess ♦ George Guess ♦ guess a riddle ♦ guess right ♦ Guess rope ♦ guess smb.'s age ♦ guess stick ♦ Guess warp ♦ guess what? ♦ guess wrong ♦ hazard a guess ♦ i guess so ♦ i guess you are right ♦ it is only a wild guess ♦ make a guess ♦ my guess is that ♦ my guess was right ♦ right guess ♦ rough guess ♦ shrewd guess ♦ that was a near guess. Additional references.

Beginning with "guess": guess-rope, guess-the-composer, Guess-the-word, guess-work.

Ending with "guess": second-guess.

Afrikaans

veronderstel (hypothesize, presume, suppose, surmise), meen (account, accredit, believe, deem, presume, suppose, surmise), vermoë (ability, presume, suppose, surmise). (various references)

Albanian

gjej me mend, gjej (ascertain, assure, be, be present, catch, come across, dig up, discover, distil, distill, divine, fetch, figure out, find, find out, get, hit, hunt down, hunt out, hunt up, look out, meet with, obtain, pick out, procure, root out, scare up, search out, trace), zbulim (detection, disclosure, discovery, divulge, exploration, exposure, eye opener, finding, intelligence, invention, outcrop, prospection, reconnaissance, reconnoiter, reconnoitre, reveal, strike, uncovering), supozoj (assume, calculate, conjecture, expect, hypothesize, imagine, make, make advances to, presume, presuppose, rate, reckon for, suppose), supozim (assumption, calculation, conjecture, guesswork, presumption, presupposition, supposition), mendoj (believe, conceive, consider, contemplate, deem, deliberate, dream up, elaborate, expect, fancy, feel, figure, hold, imagine, judge, mean, opine, ponder, rate, reason, reckon for, reflect, regard, repute, say, study, suppose, take, think, Trow, try, understand, ween), marrje me mend, marr me mend (divine, perceive, picture, presume, presuppose, surmise), kujtoj (bear in mind, bring to mind, call up, hold, impart, keep in mind, mind, recall, recollect, remember, retain, think, understand, visualize), hamendje (conjecture, divination), besoj (accredit, believe, calculate, commit, confide, consign, credit, entrust, hold, intrust, rely, Trow, trust, understand, ween). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قوم (adjust, appraise, assess, calibrate, correct, esteem, estimate, evaluate, folk, horde, measure, nation, people, prize, rate, reckon, rectify, reform, straighten, value), ‏قدر (afford, amount, appraise, appreciate, assess, assume, be able to, be capable of, believe, can, consider, cost, count, deal, degree, esteem, estimate, evaluate, lot, magnitude, manage to, measure, number, predestination, predestine, predetermine, presume, prize, proportion, quantity, rate, size, suppose, think, treasure, value, volume), ‏تخمين (appraisal, assessment, estimate, estimation, guess-work, presumption, prognosis, rating, speculation, valuation), ‏خمن (appraise, estimate, evaluate, infer, riddle, size up, speculate, suppose, surmise), ‏إفتراض (assumption, hypothesis, postulate, presumption, presupposition, proposition, supposition), ‏ظن (calculate, fancy, imagine, misgiving, reckon, suppose, supposition, surmise, suspect, think). (various references)

Asturian

aldovinar (to guess). (various references)

Basque

asmatu (guess to, invent to). (various references)

Bemba

ukutunganya (to guess). (various references)

Bulgarian 

считам (conceive, deem, esteem, hold, look on, make, reckon, regard, repute, see, suppose, think, vote), струва ми се (appear, fancy, imagine, methinks), смятам (adjudge, calculate, cipher, consider, count, deem, feel, figure, find, judge, number, opine, reckon, regard, see, set down, take, ween, work), сметка (account, bill, check, reckoning, score, shot, tab), гадая (divine, read, soothsay), отгатвам (hit, nose, psyche, riddle, tell), мъча се да отгатна, мисля (deliberate, figure, imagine, opine, pore, puzzle, puzzle over, reason, reckon, repute, see, suppose, think, ween, weigh), предположение (assumption, conjecture, hypothesis, if, postulate, presumption, presupposition, speculation, suggestion, supposition, surmise), предполагам (assume, believe, conjecture, divine, expect, imagine, implicate, imply, postulate, presume, presuppose, reckon, suppose, suspect, take, take a notion, think, think for, ween), познавам (be familiar with, cognize, know, recognize, tell), изчисление (calculation, cast, compute, estimate, logistics, numeration, reckoning, working out), досещам се, догадка (conjecture, surmise). (various references)

Cebuano

motagna (to guess). (various references)

Chamorro

para ma kédanche (to guess). (various references)

Chinese 

臆測 (assumption), 猜謎兒 (guess a riddle), 猜想 (suppose, suspect), 猜测 (Guessed, guessing), 猜測 (conjecture, surmise), 揣測 (guessing), 揣 (estimate, figure, put into, surmise), 忖 (consider, ponder). (various references)

Czech

hádat (divine). (various references)

Danish

gætte, antage (presume, suppose, surmise). (various references)

Dutch

raden (advise, counsel), gissen (conjecture, surmise), doorzien. (various references)

Esperanto

supozi (presume, suppose, surmise), konjekto (conjecture, guesswork), diveni. (various references)

Faeroese

gita (decipher), halda (account, accredit, believe, celebrate, deem, hang onto, have a subscription, hold, presume, retain, suppose, surmise, take in). (various references)

Farsi 

فرض (Assumption, Duty, Hypothesis, If, Liability, Posit, Presumption, Supposition, Thesis), گمان (Aim, Assumption, Belief, Conjecture, Doubt, Idea, Impression, Opinion, Supposition, Surmise, Thought), حدس زدن (Conjecture, Guesstimate, Imagine, Rede, Surmise), حدس (Aim, Conjecture, Surmise), تخمین زدن (Account, Appraise, Compute, Estimate, Guesstimate), تخمین (Approximation, Assessment, Conjecture, Estimate, Surmise), ظن (Conjecture, Hunch, Surmise). (various references)

Finnish

olettaa (assume, presume, suppose, surmise), arvata (anticipate, foresee, surmise), arvailla, aavistaa (anticipate, foresee, have a feeling, have a presentiment, suspect). (various references)

French

supposer, deviner. (various references)

Frisian

fermoedzje (presume, suppose, surmise), ergje (presume, suppose, surmise). (various references)

German

raten (advise, counsel, rates, solve, to advise), vermuten (assume, conjecture, imagine, presume, suppose, surmise, suspect, think, to assume, to suppose, to surmise, to suspect), schätzung (appraisal, appraisement, estimate, estimation, rating, valuation), erraten (to guess). (various references)

Greek 

μαντεύω (augur, presage, surmise), εικασία (conjecture, guesswork, speculation). (various references)

Hebrew 

למצוא (discover, find, find out, reveal), לנחש (augur, conjecture, divine, estimate, figure out, foretell, predict, surmise), נחוש (conjecture, determined, divination, foretelling, prediction, set, shot, surmise). (various references)

Hungarian

találgatás (conjecture, guessing). (various references)

Icelandic

halda (presume, suppose, surmise). (various references)

Indonesian

sangka (think), pengagak (conjecture), mengagak-agakkan (figure), membadek (devine), duga. (various references)

Inuktitut

nalautaaqluni (to guess). (various references)

Italian

supporre (assume, believe, expect, hypothesise, hypothesize, imagine, judge, mean, opine, postulate, presume, reckon, suppose, surmise, suspect, think, to assume, to suspect). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

臆測 (speculation, supposition), 見当 (aim, approx, be found, direction, estimate, mark), 疑問　 (doubt, problem, question), 疑問 (doubt, problem, question), 推量 , 推測 (conjecture), 推察 (conjecture, surmise), 想像　 (imagination), 想像 (imagination), 思議 (conjecture), 憶測　 (speculation, supposition), 憶測 (speculation, supposition), 忖度 (conjecture), 察し (conjecture, consideration, judgment), て拳道 (copula, detective, Don't you agree?, event, has become possible, hope, huge, huge breasts, I fear, I hope, I think, I thought you'd say that!, in a big way, is now possible, it seems, may, polite copula in Japanese, probably, surely, Tae Kwon Do, therefore, think, to be, will). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぎもん (doubt, problem, question), すいそく (conjecture), すいさつ (conjecture, surmise), すいりょう (quantity or volume of water), おくそく (speculation, supposition), しぎ (city assemblyman, conference, conjecture, consultation, criticism behind one's back, developments, outcome, personal opinion, practice jump, sandpiper, situation, snipe), そうぞう (creation, imagination), そんたく (conjecture, your house), さっし (book, booklet, brush, commutator brush, conjecture, consideration, judgment, notebook, pamphlet, story book), でしょう (Don't you agree?, hope, I thought you'd say that!, think), けんとう (a votive lantern in a shrine or temple, aim, approx, be found, boxing, consideration, direction, door light, estimate, examination, fighting bravely, good fight, good luck!, good pitching, investigation, lamp or electric light at the eaves of a house, mark, prizefighting, scrutiny, strenuous efforts, study, winter). (various references)

Kongo

ku-bikula (to guess). (various references)

Korean 

추측 (Assuming). (various references)

Macedonian

pogoduva (to guess). (various references)

Manx

tuarymey, tuarym (conjecture, estimation, guesswork, opinion, review, surmise, view, viewpoint), shein (conjecture, imagine, presume, speculate, suppose), sheiltyn (conceive, conceiving, conjecture, fancy, imagine, presume, speculate, suppose, supposing, theorize, visualize), cur cheb er, cheb (bet, bid, tender). (various references)

Norwegian

gjette, gjetning. (various references)

Occitan

endevinar. (various references)

Papiamen

rei (king), ideá (presume, suppose, surmise). (various references)

Pig Latin

uessgay.(various references)

Polish

przypuszczać (presume, suppose, surmise). (various references)

Portuguese

supor (assume, conjecture, consider, dream, expect, fancy, imagine, make out, presume, see, suppose, surmise, think, ween), conjeturar (conjecture, presume, presuppose, suppose, surmise), conjetura (case, conjecture, guesswork, speculation, supposition, surmise), adivinhar (divine, forecast, foretell, prophesy, rede, riddle). (various references)

Provencal

endevinhar (to guess). (various references)

Romanian

ghici (conjecture, discover, divine, feel, foresee, foretell, Rede, surmise). (various references)

Romansch

engiavinar (to guess). (various references)

Ruanda

kumenya ikintu (to guess). (various references)

Russian 

считать (account, be of the opinion, consider, consider [], count, date, deem, deeming, esteem, look on, number, rate, reckon, regard, regarded, think, think of as, think to be), угадывать (divine), угадать, отгадать, предположение (assumption, conjecture, contemplation, presumption, presupposition, speculation, supposition), предполагать (anticipate, assume, be supposed to, conjecture, expect, imagine, presume, presuming, presuppose, suppose, supposes, supposing, surmise, understand), приблизительный подсчет, полагать (believe, count, deem, opine, reckon, repute, suppose, think, trow), догадываться догадка, догадка (conjecture, guesswork, guess-work, inkling). (various references)

Samoan

e mate (to guess). (various references)

Scottish

tomhais (measure, solve, unriddle). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pretpostavljati (believe, conjecture, presume, ween), pogađati, nagađanje (guesswork, sneaking suspicion, supposition, surmise). (various references)

Sicilian

cognetturari (to guess). (various references)

Spanish

suponer (entail, expect, involve, mean, presume, presuppose, pretend, say, suppose, surmise, trust), adivinar (advise, divine, flabbergast, Pierce), suposición (assumption, conjecture, fancy, presumption, supposition, surmise), asumir (absorb, assimilate, assume, photograph, presume, put on, receive, suppose, surmise, take, take on, take over). (various references)

Swedish

gissa (conjecture, divine, imagine), gissning (conjecture, surmise), anta (accept, admit, adopt, approve, embrace, engage, expect, pass, presume, put on, suppose, surmise, suspect, take). (various references)

Thai

เดา (guess at), การคาดการณ์ (calculation), คิดว่า. (various references)

Turkish

zannetmek (conjecture, deem, suppose, surmise, take for, think), varsayımda bulunmak (hypothesize), varsayım (conjecture, guesswork, hypothesis, supposition), tahminde bulunmak (prognosticate, speculate), tahmin etmek (anticipate, calculate, cast off, conjecture, divine, dope, dope out, estimate, extrapolate, forecast, judge, presume, put down, suppose, surmise, take stock of), tahmin (approximation, calculation, conjecture, divination, estimate, estimation, forecast, judgement, outlook, prediction, presumption, presupposition, prognostication, prophecy, shot, speculation, supposition, surmise), sezmek (antedate, anticipate, be sensible of, detect, discern, divine, feel, have a scent for smth., intuit, perceive, rumble, scent, see, sense, smell, sniff, taste blood), sanmak (assume, conjecture, expect, fancy, flatter oneself, imagine, presume, put down, repute, suppose, surmise, take, take for, think), sanı (assumption, esteem, hallucination, supposition, thought), içine doğmak (divine, forebode, have a feeling, intuit, presage). (various references)

Turkmen 

зak etmek. (various references)

Ukrainian

здогадуватися (imagine), здогадка, приблизний підрахунок, припущення (admission, assumption, calculation, conjecture, hypothesis, inference, perhaps, presumption, presupposition, subaudition, suppose, supposition, surmise, theory). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự ước chừng, sự đoán (divination). (various references)

Welsh

dyfeisio (devise, imagine, invent), dyfalu (conjecture), dyfaliad (conjecture), amcanu (aim, intend, purpose), amcan (aim, notion, purpose). (various references)

aestimo, coniecto, divina, divinabant, divinabitis, divinant, divinantes, divinarentur, divinas, divino, putare. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "guess": guessable, guessed, guesser, guessers, guesses, guessing, guesstimate, guesstimated, guesstimates, guesstimating, guesswork, guessworks. (additional references)

Words ending with "guess": misguess, otherguess, outguess. (additional references)

Words containing "guess": misguessed, misguesses, misguessing, outguessed, outguesses, outguessing, unguessable. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Guess" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gaess, gces, geass, Geeses, geiss, geues, geums, geus, geuss, gewiss, gews, ghes, gluecks, gress, guass, gudes, gueps, gues, guese, guesse, guesso, Guezo, guis, guiz, guness, gus, Guse, gusee, guss, guvs, Nguessan, Nguesso, nguez, quess. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: segs, sues, uses.

-2 letters: ess, seg, sue, use.

-3 letters: es, us.

+1 letter: guests, guises, gushes, gusset, gussie, segues, squegs, surges, usages.

+2 letters: arguses, assuage, burgess, degauss, degusts, gaseous, gausses, genuses, grouses, guessed, guesser, guesses, gumless, gunless, gunsels, gurshes, gushers, gussets, gussied, gussies, gustoes, gutless, muskegs, neguses, saugers, sausage, sheughs, sludges, smudges, spurges, suggest, surgers, tugless.

+3 letters: assuaged, assuages, bugseeds, desugars, dinguses, disguise, escuages, funguses, galluses, gashouse, geniuses, gestures, glucoses, glumness, graduses, griseous, grousers, guanases, guessers, guessing, gummoses, gumshoes, gushiest, gusseted, gustiest, gustless, gutsiest, gypseous, hugeness, messuage, misguess, misusage, outguess, plugless, plussage, resurges, roseslug, rungless, sausages, scourges, scrouges, scutages, seagulls, sevrugas, slugfest, sluggers, smuggest, smuggles, smugness, snuggest, snuggies, snuggles, snugness, splurges, subgenus, substage, suggests, sullages, surgeons, ugliness, upstages, upsurges, valguses, vulguses, wiseguys.