Meanings
plural educated guesses
- A well-informed guess or estimate based on experience or theoretical knowledge.
Everyone guesses: estimating is how people with a trade guess; educated guesses are what professional people do; hopeless stabs in the dark are what statisticians do.
2005 August 6, Guy Browning, “How to … guess”, in The GuardianSynonyms: guesstimate, intelligent guess · Antonyms: uneducated guess
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA well-informed guess or estimate based on experience or theoretical knowledge.
Translations
Arabic تَخْمِين مَدْرُوس
- تَخْمِين مَدْرُوس (taḵmīn madrūs)guess based on experience or knowledge
Catalan conjectura
- conjecturaguess based on experience or knowledge
Chinese Mandarin 有根據的推測 /有根据的推测
- 有根據的推測 /有根据的推测 (yǒu gēnjù de tuīcè)guess based on experience or knowledge
Czech kvalifikovaný odhad
- kvalifikovaný odhadguess based on experience or knowledge
Finnish valistunut arvaus
- valistunut arvausguess based on experience or knowledge
French supposition éclairée, supposition bien informée
- supposition éclairéeguess based on experience or knowledge
- supposition bien informéeguess based on experience or knowledge
- hypothèse raisonnéeguess based on experience or knowledge
- hypothèse raisonnableguess based on experience or knowledge
- hypothèse bien fondéeguess based on experience or knowledge
- estimation éclairéeguess based on experience or knowledge
- hypothèse éclairéeguess based on experience or knowledge
German fundierte Vermutung
- fundierte Vermutungguess based on experience or knowledge
Hebrew ניחוש מושכל
- ניחוש מושכלguess based on experience or knowledge
Italian stima ragionata, ipotesi plausibile
- stima ragionataguess based on experience or knowledge
- ipotesi plausibileguess based on experience or knowledge
- supposizione plausibileguess based on experience or knowledge
Norwegian Bokmål kvalifisert gjetning
- kvalifisert gjetningguess based on experience or knowledge
Polish domysł na podstawie doświadczenia
- domysł na podstawie doświadczeniaguess based on experience or knowledge
Portuguese palpite fundamentado, suposição fundamentada
- palpite fundamentadoguess based on experience or knowledge
- suposição fundamentadaguess based on experience or knowledge
- hipótese fundamentadaguess based on experience or knowledge
- hipótese plausívelguess based on experience or knowledge
Russian обосно́ванное предположе́ние, предположе́ние
- обосно́ванное предположе́ние (obosnóvannoje predpoložénije)guess based on experience or knowledge
- предположе́ние (predpoložénije)guess based on experience or knowledge
Swedish kvalificerad gissning
- kvalificerad gissningguess based on experience or knowledge
Cite this entry
educated guess. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/educated%20guess
“educated guess.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/educated%20guess. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “educated guess,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/educated%20guess.
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