Guess vs. Misguess — What's the Difference?

To predict (a result or an event) without sufficient information.

To guess incorrectly

To assume, presume, or assert (a fact) without sufficient information.

To guess wrongly.

To form a correct estimate or conjecture of

To suppose; think

To make an estimate or conjecture

To estimate or conjecture correctly.

An act or instance of guessing.

A conjecture arrived at by guessing.

To reach a partly (or totally) unqualified conclusion.

To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.

To suppose (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).

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

(obsolete) To hit upon or reproduce by memory.

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

To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture.

To judge or form an opinion of, from reasons that seem preponderating, but are not decisive.

To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly; as, he who guesses the riddle shall have the ring; he has guessed my designs.

To hit upon or reproduce by memory.

To think; to suppose; to believe; to imagine; - followed by an objective clause.

To make a guess or random judgment; to conjecture; - with at, about, etc.

An opinion as to anything, formed without sufficient or decisive evidence or grounds; an attempt to hit upon the truth by a random judgment; a conjecture; a surmise.

A message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence

An estimate based on little or no information

Expect, believe, or suppose;

Put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation;

Judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time);

Guess correctly; solve by guessing;