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guessing

nounverbcommon in dialogue

  • //ˈɡɛsɪŋ//

The act of making a guess; estimate or prediction; foresight.

noun

  1. 1

    The act of making a guess; estimate or prediction; foresight.

Etymology

From Middle English gessyng, gessynge, equivalent to guess + -ing.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of guesspresent participle and gerund of guess

Etymology

From Middle English gessyng, equivalent to guess + -ing.

Forms

plural
guessings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).