How to say “guess” in 30 different languages
Every one of these is a word that turns up in ordinary speech, not a dictionary curiosity — the number beside it is where it ranks in that language.
- আন্দাজ/and̪ad͡ʒ/ Bengali
- ഊഹം/uːhɐm/ Malayalam
- అంచనా/aɲt͡ɕanaː/ Telugu
- حدس[hæd̪s] Persian
“guess” in French: devine · Italian: indovinare · Portuguese: adivinhar · Turkish: tahmin
It is commonest in Telugu, where అంచనా is the 165th most used word.
Guess in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans raai/rɑːi/ to guess #1,112
- Albanian supozoj/supɔzɔj/ to guess, hypothesize #1,232
- Arabic وهم/wa.ha.ma/ to conjecture, to guess, to presume, to ween,… #544
- Basque igarri/iɡari/ to know, to guess, to find out #1,058
- Bengali আন্দাজ/and̪ad͡ʒ/ guess, conjecture #1,527
- Czech asi[ˈasɪ] I guess/I think #124
- Danish gætte[ˈɡɛdə] to guess, surmise #1,747
- Dutch raad/raːt/ to guess #926
- Finnish kai/ˈkɑi̯(ˣ)/ probably, I guess #123
- French devine/də.vin/ to guess; to work out, figure out #2,190
- Greek υποθέτω/ˌipoˈθeto/ to suppose, guess #466
- Hindi अनुमान/ə.nʊ.mɑːn/ estimate, guess, inference, hypothesis #1,443
- Hungarian képzeld[ˈkeːbzɛld] guess what #2,176
- Icelandic giska[ˈcɪska] to guess #1,337
- Indonesian tebak/təˈbak/ #1,414
- Italian indovinare/in.do.viˈna.re/ to guess #2,476
- Latvian minēt[ˈminɛ̂ːt] to guess #1,777
- Macedonian погодок[ˈpɔɡɔdɔk] #1,793
- Malay teka/təka/ to guess #1,161
- Malayalam ഊഹം/uːhɐm/ #955
- Norwegian aner/ˈɑːnər/ guess, sense #608
- Persian حدس[hæd̪s] guess, assumption, estimate #458
- Portuguese adivinhar/a.d͡ʒi.vĩˈɲa(ʁ)/ to guess #2,245
- Romanian ghici/ɡiˈt͡ʃi/ to guess #1,685
- Slovak asi/ˈasi/ I guess, I think #105
- Swedish gissa/ˈjɪsa/ to guess #1,104
- Tagalog hula/ˈhulaʔ/ guess; conjecture; surmise #1,400
- Telugu అంచనా/aɲt͡ɕanaː/ guess, conjecture #165
- Turkish tahmin/tahˈmin/ guess, speculation #516
- Vietnamese đoán[ʔɗwaːn˧˦] to guess; to predict; to surmise; to divine #520
The speaker reads the word in the voice the LangX app uses for that language — synthesised, not a recording of a native speaker, so treat it as a guide. A row without a button has no reading we are free to use, or none we trust, yet. Voices for Bengali (google (bn_BD), CC BY-SA 4.0) and Vietnamese (vais1000 (vi_VN), CC BY 4.0).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.