• enPR: gĕs, IPA: /ɡɛs/

guess (guesses, present participle guessing; past and past participle guessed)

1. To reach a partly (or totally) unqualified conclusion.
2. To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.

   He who guesses the riddle shall have the ring.

3. (chiefly, US) to suppose (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).

   That album is quite hard to find, but I guess you could try ordering it online.

   • c. 1591–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene i]:

     Not all together; better far, I guess, / That we do make our entrance several ways.

   • 1714, Alexander Pope, Imitations of Horace

     But in known images of life I guess / The labour greater.

4. (colloquial) To think, conclude, or decide (without a connotation of uncertainty). Usually in first person: "I guess".

   "I guess you were right." "What did he say?" "He guesses you were right."

   "I guess I'll go to bed."

5. (obsolete) To hit upon or reproduce by memory.
   • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene i]:

     Tell me their words, as near as thou canst guess them.

• hypothesize
• take a stab
• speculate
• assume

• French: deviner
• German: schätzen, raten
• Italian: indovinare
• Portuguese: adivinhar
• Russian: уга́дывать
• Spanish: adivinar, conjeturar

• French: déduire
• German: erraten
• Italian: azzeccare
• Portuguese: adivinhar, deduzir
• Russian: уга́дывать
• Spanish: deducir, adivinar

• French: supposer
• German: schätzen, wohl, glauben
• Italian: supponere, presumere
• Portuguese: achar
• Russian: полага́ть
• Spanish: suponer

guess (plural guesses)

1. A prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support.

   If you don't know the answer, take a guess.

   Synonyms: estimate, hypothesis, prediction

• French: conjecture
• German: Vermutung
• Italian: congettura
• Portuguese: suposição, conjectura
• Russian: дога́дка
• Spanish: conjetura