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Definition: GUESSED |
GUESSEDImperative & past participle1. Of Guess |
Date "GUESSED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Crosswords: GUESSED |
| English words defined with "GUESSED": aright ♦ Conjecturable, correctly ♦ guess, Guessable ♦ incorrectly, infer ♦ right ♦ wrong, wrongly. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "GUESSED": assumed arithmetic mean ♦ guessed arithmetic mean ♦ WEIGHT GUESSER. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Woo-hoo! Who woulda guessed reading and writing would pay off (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Dammit, Bethany, he guessed it (Christmas Vacation; writing credit: John Hughes) I never would have guessed. (A View to a Kill; writing credit: Richard Maibaum) I never would've guessed. (Stargate SG-1; writing credit: Robert C. Cooper; Brad Wright) I think we've both guessed that (Star Trek: Where No Man Has Gone Before; writing credit: Samuel A. Peeples) | |
Lyrics | Now who would have guessed Milton's paradise lost could be found (The Dean And I; performing artist: 10CC) But What It Holds For Her, She Hasn't Yet Guessed (Wide Open Spaces; performing artist: DIXIE CHICKS) No one guessed (Jesus To A Child; performing artist: George Michael) | |
Clever | A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once. (references; author: unknown) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| "Donuts" by Mantis Wong Commentary: "A shot of some donuts from tim hortons not sure if tim hortons is a canada only company, but for those who dont know already, tim hortons sells, you guessed it, DONUTS ! ." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | Emma guessed him to be the drudge of some attorney, and too stupid to rise |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | I little guessed what a fierce restraint she was putting upon herself |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | In the little light that there was, these men were not seen, they were only guessed. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "GUESSED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 62.01% of the time. "GUESSED" is used about 1,152 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 62.01% | 714 | 9,404 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 37.9% | 437 | 13,188 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.09% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,152 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "GUESSED": guessed arithmetic mean ♦ you guessed it!. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "GUESSED": guessed-at. | |
Ending with "GUESSED": second-guessed. | |
Containing "GUESSED": half-guessed-at. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "GUESSED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 猜测 (guess, guessing). (various references) | |
French | devinai, devinées, deviné, devinâmes, devinèrent. (various references) | |
German | vermutete (conjectured, presumed, supposed, supposes, surmised), ratete (advised, counselled), geraten (advisable, advised, be succesful, flourish, get, prosper, thrive), ahnte (presaged). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kitaláltad! (guessed right!), eltaláltad! (guessed right!). (various references) | |
Korean | 짐작하는. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uessedgay.(various references) | |
Romanian | ai ghicit (you guessed it, you've hit it). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "GUESSED": misguessed, outguessed. (additional references) | |
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"GUESSED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gaissed, gesed, gessoed, gubensee, guese, gueset, guesse, guesso, guested, Nguessan, Nguesso. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "GUESSED" (pronounced ge"st) |
| 4 | g e" s t | guest. |
| 3 | -e" s t | arrest, abreast, acquiesced, addressed, assessed, attest, behest, bequest, best, blessed, blest, breast, Celeste, chest, coalesced, compressed, confessed, congest, crest, impressed, depressed, detest, digest, digressed, dispossessed, distressed, divest, dressed, expressed, fessed, finessed, gest, infest, ingest, invest, jest, lest, messed, molest, nest, northwest, obsessed, oppressed, pest, possessed, pressed, Prest, professed, progressed, quest, rearrest, reassessed, recessed, reinvest, repossessed, repressed, request, rest, retest, southwest, stressed, suggest, suppressed, test, transgressed, unaddressed, undressed, unimpressed, unrest, vest, West, wrest, zest. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-g-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: sedges, segued, segues, suedes. | |
-2 letters: edges, gudes, guess, sedge, seeds, segue, suede. | |
-3 letters: dees, dues, dugs, edge, eses, geds, geed, gees, gude, seed, sees, segs, suds, sued, sues, used, uses. | |
-4 letters: dee, due, dug, eds, ess, ged, gee, see, seg, sue, use. | |
-5 letters: de, ed, es, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-g-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: bugseeds, gusseted. | |
+2 letters: besmudges, degaussed, degausser, degausses, nutsedges, suggested. | |
+3 letters: degaussers, misguessed, outguessed, ruggedness. | |
+4 letters: disembogues, gaudinesses, guardedness, pudginesses, superseding. | |
+5 letters: daughterless, disguisement, enduringness, geopressured, groundsheets, guesstimated, ruggednesses, smudginesses, turgidnesses. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Images: Digital Art | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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