your guess
What you surmise
Your guess refers to whatever someone thinks or speculates about something uncertain.
The phrase appears in expressions acknowledging uncertainty: Your guess is as good as mine means neither person knows the answer.
Be my guest and your guess sometimes get confused, but they're unrelated—one offers permission, the other invites speculation.
- estimateInformed guess at quantity
- speculationUnproven theorizing or risky investment
- hypothesisTestable proposed explanation
- hunchUnproven inner sense
- predictionForecast of coming events
intuition · conjecture · assumption · shot · stab · ballpark · gamble · riddle · answer · puzzle · mystery · clue · wild · shot in the dark · educated · lucky · wrong · right
- confusionconfusion, confused, bewilderment, perplexity, baffled
- uncertaintyuncertainty, uncertain, unknown, unsure, unclear
your guesscertainty
Total absence of doubt
sure thing · absolute certainty · hard evidence · scientific consensus · common knowledge
your guessscientific consensus
Prevailing expert judgment
accepted truth · received wisdom · common knowledge · matter of record · gospel truth
guess, guesses, guessed, guessing, guesser, guesswork, outguess, second-guess