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Guesstimate

Definitions: Guesstimate

Guesstimate

Noun

1. An estimate that combines reasoning with guessing.

Verb

1. Estimate based on a calculation.

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


Synonym: Guesstimate

Synonym: guestimate (n). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Guesstimate

"Guesstimate" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Guesstimate" is used about 6 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%6143,867

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Guesstimate

Expression using "guesstimate": by guesstimate. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Guesstimate

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

guesstimate

4
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Modern Translations: Guesstimate

Language Translations for "guesstimate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

odhad od oka, hrubý odhad (guess). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

حدس زدن (Conjecture, Guess, Imagine, Rede, Surmise), تخمین زدن (Account, Appraise, Compute, Estimate, Guess). (various references)

   

German

  

grobe schätzung. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

uesstimategay

   

Thai

  

การคา"เ"า (คำไม่เป็นทางการ). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sezgiye dayalı tahminde bulunmak, sezgiye dayalı tahmin. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Guesstimate

Derivations

Words beginning with "guesstimate": guesstimated, guesstimates. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Guesstimate"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "guesstimate" (pronounced ge"stumut or ge"stumāt)
7-e" s t u m u testimate.
5-t u m u tillegitimate, intimate, legitimate, ultimate.
4-u m u tanimate, approximate, consummate, inanimate, proximate.
3-m u tclimate, comet, gamut, helmet, hermit, limit, microclimate, plummet, summit, vomit.
3-m ā tcremate.

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

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Anagrams: Guesstimate

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-i-m-s-s-t-t-u"

-2 letters: estimates, steamiest.

-3 letters: estimate, etatisms, gestates, gustiest, gutsiest, meatiest, meatuses, messuage, misstate, misusage, musettes, mustiest, seamiest, situates, stagiest, teatimes.

-4 letters: aegises, ageisms, ageists, augites, autisms, easiest, estates, etatism, gametes, gamiest, gestate, megasse, message, metages, metates, metisse, misease, miseats, misseat, musette, mustees, mutases, mutates, sagiest, samites, siamese, sigmate, situate, statism, statues, stigmas, suttees, tamises.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-i-m-s-s-t-t-u"
 

+1 letter: guesstimated, guesstimates.

 

+4 letters: unmitigatedness.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Guesstimate


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 75 65 73 73 74 69 6D 61 74 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01110101 01100101 01110011 01110011 01110100 01101001 01101101 01100001 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#117 &#101 &#115 &#115 &#116 &#105 &#109 &#97 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0075 0065 0073 0073 0074 0069 006D 0061 0074 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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