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misguessing

misguessing is the present participle and gerund of misguess.

Meaning of misguess

Verb

misguess (third-person singular simple present misguesses, present participle misguessing, simple past and past participle misguessed)

  1. To guess incorrectly
    • Sanborn had not come this far to misguess now.2007 July 21, “3 Champions Take Bows in Nashville”, in New York Times

Questions about misguessing

What is misguessing the present participle and gerund of?
Misguessing is the present participle and gerund of misguess.

Words near misguessing in the dictionary

  1. misguarding
  2. misguards
  3. misguess
  4. misguessed
  5. misguesses
  6. misguessing
  7. misguesstimate
  8. misguggle
  9. misguggled
  10. misguggles
  11. misguggling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misguessing (page history and authors); misguess (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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