Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for guess
Synonyms for guess: think and estimate. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for guess
Interchangeable with guess in this sense
Audited under guess's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one guess carries in that sense.
- thinkverb, in the sense "expect, believe, or suppose"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name guess as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- estimateestimate is a verb in the sense "judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under guess and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
expect, believe, or suppose
I guess she is angry at me for standing her up.
The true synonym
think
Same sentence, swapped: I think she is angry at me for standing her up.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for guess in the sentence quoted.
- venture
- gauge
- trust
Where guess turns up in the game
guess is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where guess is the trap
- believeverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is trust, in the sense "be confident about something", so guess is there to be ruled out.
- judgeverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is try, in the sense "put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of", and guess is on the board beside it.
- shotnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is injection, in the sense "the act of putting a liquid into the body by means of a syringe", with guess sitting one tile away.
Play guess
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so guess reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because thinking and knowing is the company guess keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. guess carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.