Definitions for guesswork

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Spelling: [ges-wurk]
IPA: /ˈgɛsˌwɜrk/

Guesswork is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 254 anagrams from letters in guesswork (egkorssuw).

Definitions for guesswork

noun

  1. work or procedure based on or consisting of the making of guesses or conjectures.

Origin of guesswork

First recorded in 1715-25; guess + work

Examples for guesswork

It had only been selected by guesswork among a number on Roden's bunch.

This, he recognized, was guesswork, but still it might be the truth.

It's always going to be very much a matter of insight, judgment, guesswork, and so forth.

In nearly all of America's accidents, guesswork is the real cause.

The further in they went the greater the guesswork of the going.

It was guesswork to trace his footsteps, but the elder youth made the effort.

It's also almost 100% guesswork, at least for the period before 1976, and certainly for the period before 1925.

Tell him he must measure out the water without any guesswork.

Based on my experience with my own sources, guesswork about who is behind a story is often wrong.

Perhaps I might hazard a guess, but it's no use talking of guesswork.

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