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GUESS
Definition of GUESS
verb
To reach a partly (or totally) unconfirmed conclusion; to engage in conjecture; to speculate.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English gessen (verb) and Middle English gesse (noun), probably of North Germanic origin, from Old Danish getse, gitse, getsa (“to guess”), from Old Norse *getsa, *gitsa, from Proto-Germanic *gitisōną (“to guess”), from Proto-Germanic *getaną (“to get”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- (“to take, seize”). Cognate with Danish gisne (“to guess”), Norwegian gissa, gjette (“to guess”), Swedish gissa (“to guess”), Saterland Frisian gisje (“to guess”), Dutch gissen (“to guess”), Low German gissen (“to guess”), Dutch gis (“a guess”). Related also to Icelandic giska ("to guess"; from Proto-Germanic *gitiskōną). Compare also Russian гада́ть (gadátʹ, “to conjecture, guess, divine”), Albanian gjëzë (“riddle”) from gjej (“find, recover, obtain”). More at get.
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Word DNA
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
9%
of traced words share this origin (2,614)
How it is built
Same root, GUESS · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Russian, Swedish.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GUESS in OUTLIER
It has fitted 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 76, 4 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 70 days.
Built from these letters
GUESS starts with G and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EGSSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start GUESS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found GUESS?
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